Fischerspooner put Halloween to Shame

I am guessing if you live in New York, your Halloween was as annoying as mine. I was all dressed up as Jane Fonda, with a sparkle in my eyes dreaming of all the amazing parties to shake my leg warmers at. Apparently me and 15,000 other party goers. I spent all the night texting friends scattered around the city all of us trying to get into parties with lines around the block. I called it quits when someone started to puke on my cute little jazz shoes.

Tonight however, the night of the morning after, Fischerspooner made me forget all my Halloween sorrows. The had a show at the Moma that was f*&%#$ brilliant! I found out about it just last week when I helped the fabulous and talented Elise Martinelli sew the sequined get ups for the finale. After getting a glimpse, I knew it would be fun, but they were truly amazing. So original and playful, a great mix of fashion and costume.

The music was their signature electro pop that makes your booty do a shake. There was lots chatting up the audience, costume elaborate costume changes, moving mirrors and walls on stage that constantly changed your vantage point. The crowd was a very cute mix of professional looking matured hipsters that sang along to all their favorites.

All in all a great night, thanks Fischerspooner for saving my weekend.

Another Reason to vote Bloomberg out of office

Everyone knows I like a good rally, so when Celeste Lilore from RESTORE clothing asked for supporters to come rally for "Save the Garment District" I said sure. I wasn't sure what we are rallying for, but I showed up on 39th street and 7th ave and soon found out.

New York City under the Bloomberg admin has been getting re-zoned. We have seen this as hotels popping up all over the city and high rises in neighborhoods that used to have a cap on building height. What that means in the garment district has been sudden death to domestic manufacturing. Buildings that are by law supposed to only rent to garment related businesses at a fixed rent are having a free for all, jacking up the rents and kicking the factories out!

In a time when jobs are few, losing manufacturing in New York means a loss of many jobs. Did you know the garment industry is the 2nd biggest employer in New York?
What this also means is local brands, like Ryann, lose their ability to produce locally and may lose the ability to have a business period!

Bill Thompson came out and spoke in behalf of the garment center and against the hotel developers. Do what you can on election day and make sure you vote to SAVE THE GARMENT DISTRICT!

Pretend You didn't go to Bed at 8pm last night

If you are anything like me you plan on going out most nights, and then some time between, 8:30-10:00 my disco nap turns into morning. But last night I made it out! It was so worth it, what a great night.

I went to Santos and saw the live house music band Tortured Soul with a special performance by the multi-talented Wunmi Girl.
It was a great night with great music. Tortured Soul played a beautiful set of melodic love songs dedicated to various girls one might meet out at a Tortured Soul concert.
Wunmi sang some wonderful songs about consumerism, following your heart and some other deep topics with her famous wide grin on her face.

Check out both of these amazing talents http://www.wunmi.com/
http://www.torturedsoulmusic.com/

Battle Royale Gets a Little Crazy

Performance artist Shaun EL C Leonado likes to shock us with his physical feats. This time I think he may have shocked himself. Look at those crazy pictures! Ryann has worked with Shaun in the past to help him create the characters for this shows. We made a 12 foot long red velvet cape that was worn for a show and then displayed as part of a gallery show.
This time Shaun went up to Toronto Canada and gathered 20 Canadian pro wrestlers, gathered them in a cage, blind folded them and let them rip each other's heads off for hours. Ryann supplied the blind folds for the event, so I guess we are a proud sponsor.
Check out more about Shaun at http://www.elcleonardo.com/

NOW Tradeshow

Ryann participated in a eco-friendly tradeshow September 20-21 called NOW.

The NOW showcase features the newest in progressive, conscious-minded, independent, locally produced fashion design.
http://nowshowcase.org/

The venue was awesome, it was on the top floor of a building in the city giving us an amazing view of the empire state building that could be better seen on the outdoor patio! There was a great turn out, buyers, shoppers, and just curious on-lookers. There were orders being made and networking happening everywhere so I thin everyone was happy and that in turn made me very happy! The cocktail party was a great success with vegan finger foods from Regal Vegan and organic sangria and different wines.

I thank everyone who came out to support us, and everyone who helped (my wonderful interns Josefina and Sabrielle)!

Fashion Week: Ryann Style

Fashion Week just came and went and though I would have loved to attend all the amazing shows, I was busy working on Ryann's next collection. It was a hectic week, but I did get to enjoy one fashion show. Carolina Herrara was showing her Spring 2010and with my love Luis Cornier knowing Anne Grauso, Carolina Herrara's PR, I was able to put myself and my 3 interns and great friend Keith on the list.
On the way in we saw the great Rachel Zoe which was cool and once we got inside we saw many more important figures in fashion like Anna Wintour with her body guard lol. The show was wonderful, beautiful silhouettes, elegant dresses, although the colors were not my favorite I think the collection overall will be a success.

Ryann phootshoot

We shot for Ryann's Spring 2010 lookbook this past Wednesday. I wanted it to be an outdoor city-inspired scene; with rusted fences, yellow school buses and graffiti. So we chose different spots around Williamsburg.

The team consisted of photographer- Tono Radvany, stylist- Keith Pearson, hair/makeup artist- Regina Harris and my two lovely interns Sabrielle Lezeau and Josefina. And our model, 19 year-old, Elena Carola who is signed with Muse, did an amazing job especially considering how bad the sun was beating down on us!

We met at 10 am at Tono's art studio in Williamsburg which ,we learned, was apparently where the great Basquait once worked! We began shooting around 12 noon and wrapped it all up about 5pm. With everyone's contributed efforts the photoshoot went well.

Photographer: Tono Radvany (tonovision.com)
Stylist: Keith Pearson (anotherfashioninterpreter.blogspot.com)
Hair/Makeuup: Regina Harris (reginaharris.com)
Model: Elena Carola (musenyc.com)

Here's a few behind the scene's pictures but I can't show you too much!