http://www.thestylearbiter.com Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 26 Sep 2010 19:50:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en (NEW YORK CITY)  Most designers are being stingy with color next spring and summer, but even the most severe minimalists realize that total absence of it can be depressing in a season when it naturally bursts forth all around. Compared to womenswear, American menswear traditionally has been shy about bold color. So, the ... http://www.thestylearbiter.com/uncategorized/color-at-last-perry-ellis-herrera-lhuillier-bring-it.html American fashion designers seem to be speaking in unison about styles for next spring and summer: minimal, minimal, and more minimal. And with each passing day, the translation seems to be neutrals, neutrals, and more neutrals. [caption id="attachment_1579" align="aligncenter" width="200" caption="Jill Stuart"][/caption] It isn't as gloomy as it may sound. At the very ... http://www.thestylearbiter.com/uncategorized/vivienne-tam-part-of-little-white-dress-trend.html (NEW YORK CITY) Influenced partly by a dismal economy and partly by natural cycle, American fashion for next spring and summer is continuing down the path of minimalism. [caption id="attachment_1570" align="aligncenter" width="223" caption="Tadashi Shoji"][/caption] Unlike burlap-rough fabrics, dull neutral colors and the dominance of black that defined minimalist fashion decades ago, ... http://www.thestylearbiter.com/style-911/designers-prove-minimal-can-be-elegant-inspired.html (NEW YORK CITY)   If the first official day of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week is any indication of what the next season will bring -- and often it is --  then designers are sending out clothes that Americans can relate to but that also have a "wow" factor that will compel shoppers to part with scarce ... http://www.thestylearbiter.com/uncategorized/angsana-siriano-fuse-cultures-for-lovely-looks.html Designers from the United States and abroad are lined up to show their spring 2011 collections at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, which starts Thursday and ends Sept. 16. The biggest news so far this season is the move from Bryant Park, which became synonymous with fashion week, to Lincoln Center about ... http://www.thestylearbiter.com/style-911/runway-ready-lincoln-center-debuts-this-week-as-new-home-of-mercedes-benz-fashion-week-in-new-york.html [caption id="attachment_1488" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Perry Ellis"][/caption] The average guy will find plenty in stores this fall to please him, the sort of dark, masculine clothes that are impeccable tailored and easy to wear. [caption id="attachment_1486" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Elie Tahari"][/caption] Black is the new black, which should excite guys who make it their ... http://www.thestylearbiter.com/style-911/preview-fall-menswear-a-landscape-of-handsome-neutrals.html The Style Arbiter welcomed an intimate gathering of about 60 well-heeled guests to the 3 Lakes Golf Course outside Pittsburgh in July for the second annual wear-your-hautest-blue charity affair. The Sunday afternoon social included a fashion show with styles from Spoiled Chic the Boutique and Joseph Orlando, and framed fashion ... http://www.thestylearbiter.com/uncategorized/from-summer-blues-ii-hauter-than-july-to-pittsburgh-fashion-week.html Quick, guys: What’s the difference between a woven sport shirt and a knit one, and which is the better choice to wear to a football game? Okay, that double-barreled style riddle probably wasn’t fair because most men don’t know and may not even care. After all, we live in a ... http://www.thestylearbiter.com/in-the-know/great-sportswear-advice-in-new-nordstrom-men%e2%80%99s-style-book.html As Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week glided to a close last week, more of New York's big guns lined up at the plate and hit home runs out of the park. [caption id="attachment_1463" align="alignright" width="275" caption="Stephen Burrows"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_1464" align="alignright" width="275" caption="Dennis Basso"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_1466" align="alignright" width="275" caption="Brian Reyes"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_1467" align="alignright" width="275" caption="Badgley ... http://www.thestylearbiter.com/style-911/creative-chic-collections-close-out-fashion-week.html While time will tell if Tiger Woods' public statement regarding his adultery was convincing, the disgraced king of golf made excellent fashion choices when he finally faced the public Friday. Woods, 34, needed to hit the right note sartorially as well as rhetorically for the occasion, the first time he has ... http://www.thestylearbiter.com/featured/tiger%e2%80%99s-attire-for-press-statement-a-hole-in-one.html