Mia Morgan IS the Daily Diva!

Top Stylist Mia Morgan is featured today as The Daily Diva on the Dots blog!  She is live on site with the Dots team shooting their Fall 2010 Look Book and is wearing the "IT" dress for summer from Islaet's SS2010 collection.

Mia Morgan in Islaet's "Holiday" dress

Photo courtesy of Dots.

Catwalk Sidewalk

King Collective took a stroll on the Catwalk Sidewalk in the Garment District this morning, admiring a public art installation mixing the conceptual and the sartorial. The Fashion Center organized a display of 32 mannequins along the public plazas of Broadway between Herald Square and Times Square, aimed at bringing fashion to the masses and promoting the local fashion industry. Each mannequin featured an outfit designed by notable New York fashion designers such as iconic veterans of the scene Michael Kors, Diane Von Furstenberg, and Donna Karan, fashion’s newest favorites Prabal Gurung and Jason Wu, and tomorrow’s most promising designers from FIT and Parsons, the design teams of Christopher Ciaccia & Ariel Penzer and Emily Saunders & Niyati Karwat, respectively. Some created clothes fit for models of either chrome or flesh, such as Donna Karan’s strapless dress with a black and white print of New York City scenery or Badgeley Mischka’s empire-waisted gown of elegant cream gauze, golden embroidery, and weather-resistant sequins. Others took advantage of their metallic medium such as Diane von Furstenberg’s mannequin, emblazoned with a purple leopard print reminiscent of her Resort 2010 collection, and Thom Browne’s seashell-encrusted figure, painted a crisp summer white except for a red and blue arm band. Among the most eye-catching creations was Elie Tahari’s glass and bronze metal showstopper, perhaps a reference to New York’s titanic and impressive skyline constructed of steel limbs and windowpanes. This exhibit will be open until September 3, to tide over your fashion cravings until New York Fashion Week arrives. For more information, see http://www.fashioncenter.com/neighborhood/sidewalk-catwalk/.

Michael Kors

Diane Von Furstenberg

Donna Karan

Prabal Gurung

Elie Tahari

Badgley Mischka

 Thom Browne

Islaet Sample Sale

The luxurious fabrics and multi-colored jewel tones of Islaet by Danish designer Trine Jespersen provided quite a lift from the mid-week monotony, especially since the label offered its feminine, vibrant clothes at a generous discount this past Wednesday evening. 

The King Collective's Megan Ward and Erin Morgan Sweeney

The King Collective's Shannon Moran

The King Collective's Page Goss

The King Collective's Keri Ingvarsson and Diane Sweet Friedewald

Designer Andrea Saper

Alex Nilsson Lorenz

Beata Bohman

Johanna Gustafsson

Leslie Kalka

The King Collective featured the Spring/Summer 2010 Collection by Islaet at a sample sale and cocktail party in the West Village Jane Street penthouse of Rick Kimball.

Guests enjoyed the evening as they perused gorgeous Scandinavian fashion and enjoyed a glass of Italian white wine (generously provided by WineWave). 

The King Collective's Christelle Mathon

Though in the neighborhood of the Jane Hotel & Ballroom, infamous for its noise complaints and hipster/neighbor strife of last summer, the overall mood was light-hearted and calm, as we enjoyed views of the river and Manhattan while perusing the racks of clothes in shades of cobalt blue, bright orange, and iridescent silver.

Designer, Beata Bohman and celebrity stylist, Mia Morgan