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How Calvin Klein Will Switch Things Up at New York Fashion Week

By Justin Fenner

After years of hosting New York Fashion Week shows at its corporate offices, Calvin Klein plans to move its Spring 2014 show to a new location. It’ll also scale back from two shows in a day to just one.

The brand announced Tuesday that it will stage a single Calvin Klein Collection show (2 p.m. local time on Sept. 12) at Spring Studios, an as-of-yet unopened outpost for the British creative agency of the same name. In addition to office space, Spring Studios includes event space and a fully functioning photo studio. Calvin Klein will be the only brand to show its wares there for Spring 2014, and the office will officially open later this Fall.

Calvin Klein will also host an afterparty on another floor of Spring Studios that serves two purposes: it will celebrate Francisco Costa’s 10 years as the brand’s creative director, and it will also officially introduce the brand’s latest fragrance Downtown to the global market. In May it was announced that Rooney Mara was the face of the new scent.

But Calvin Klein isn’t the only brand that’s experiencing changes for New York Fashion Week. Read on to see which of our other favorite fashion brands is doing things differently for Spring 2014. …read more

Source: FULL ARTICLE at fashionologie

Calvin Klein Fall 2013

By Christina Perez

For Fall 2013, Francisco Costa injected Calvin Klein‘s usual allegiance to monochromatic minimalism with a pattern other designers have featured heavily this season: glen plaid. The designer used the check in a number of pieces but echoed its intersecting lines elsewhere, like a pleated leather dress affixed with bits of metal arranged to look like square crosses, or a wool skirt with square hole cutouts. Many of the looks were cinched in with belts so large they might be more familiar to rodeo champions or professional boxers than runway models.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at fashionologie