Fashionista Iris Apfel finally gets her due Oct 8, 2009
This show is strictly about a New York woman who, for the past 70 years, has possessed an uncanny skill for putting together Nina Ricci dresses with tag sale brooches or pairing African beads with a Bill Blass jacket - and making it look perfectly fabulous. She started mixing high end and low end decades before it was the norm. (Boston Globe)
Fashion Week's Seasonless Look Sep 19, 2009
It's been trying times for the young designer, parting ways with Bill Blass and losing a financial investor, but _ at least when it comes to design _ it seems he's found his way out of the storm. Earlier in his career, he sometimes faced criticism that his eye was too mature for the uptown party girl he was courting. (CBS News -- Entertainment)
Sabra Eagan's art earns accolades around the globe, but God keeps her grounded Sep 1, 2009
Pursuing that, she spent summers at the New York's Parsons School of Design and landed an impressive first job as the assistant to designer Bill Blass in New York. After another designer and two more manufacturers, I had to re-evaluate the fashion career, Eagan said. (Jefferson City News Tribune, MO)
Iconic Revelations Aug 11, 2009
Here, too, are portraits from Avedon's fashion days -- of Twiggy, the Kate Moss of her day, whom he shot from the neck up (her hairstylist gets a well-deserved shout-out), and the long-stemmed Veruschka, in a Bill Blass dress that floats above her glorious gams. And then there are the anti-models: "The Generals of the Daughters of the American Revolution." Decked out in corsages and sashes, they look like a collection of Queen Elizabeth wannabes. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Farewell to the first black supermodel Aug 7, 2009
Within a year she was earning $US1000 a week, and appearing in a national television campaign for AT&T wearing the creations of the American designer Bill Blass. "It helped me more than anything else because it showed my face," Naomi Sims told Ladies' Home Journal in 1968. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Naomi Sims, 61, pioneering cover girl, is dead Aug 5, 2009
Within a year, Ms. Sims was earning $1,000 a week and had been hired for a national television campaign for AT&T, which showed her and two other models one white and one Asian wearing fashions by Bill Blass. It helped me more than anything else because it showed my face, Ms. Sims told Ladies Home Journal the following year, when she appeared on its cover, the first time a black model was featured so prominently in a mainstream womens publication. (MSNBC -- News)
Top Asian American Fashion Designer... May 19, 2009
From July 2007 to October 2008 Peter Som served as Creative Director of women s wear for Bill Blass. During his tenure at the legendary design house Peter s collections received enormous praise from both press and retailers alike. (Suite101.com)
New York in the Space Age: Rodarte, Narciso Rodriguez Feb 20, 2009
Peter Som, who lost simultaneously his role as creative director of Bill Blass and the backers for his own line, produced a capsule collection in which fabrics pointed toward the future. Materials that glittered like electrical filaments, jersey shot through with sparkles and prints digitalized to striking effect proved that Som has the ability to make pretty, normal clothes - and to propel them forward. (International Herald Tribune)
