Telfar and the tikit @ NY Fashion Week, 2008
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9/11/08
The Galfromdownunder
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Five little Telfar tikits all in a row... Five tikits unboxed and assembled by BF dealer David Lam of bfold.com for the Teldfar fashion show. He must have the lowest carbon footprint shop in America - there's only room in his shop for a couple of pairs of feet! Bike Friday NY dealer David Lam, www.bfold.com, gets the Telfar tikits in shape for the Telfar fashion show - and also to do the NY Century. What do you get when you cross Tennis with fashion? Shoes like this! Wei Chao, owner of 3 Bike Fridays, tagged along to take shots of the model casting and treat me to a no-name Fuzhou dumpling house (10 for $3, bag of 50 frozen for $8!) on the lower east side. One of his projects is www.cuetable.com
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A close up of that Telfar logo which appears on the five fashion week tikits loaned to Telfar for his show. Telfar Clemens, fashion designer. The Evanglist, The Fashion Designer and one of the five monogrammed tikits. Monday September 8, 8am: bfold.com's David Lam bundles 5 tikits into a 2-door Honda Accord for the short trip to SoHo. Telfar, his stylist JJ and David Lam point to the Telfar logo on the tikits.
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Make up artists prepare the models for the show. How to look good slouching on the floor. How to slouch against a wall and look good - take it from a model! An asymmetric little tennis dress, thankfully with lots of pockets for your dropped balls. Stylist JJ writes up the order of appearance on the catwalk. The girdle you wear when you don't need a girdle.
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This modest number for the bathing pool was a crowd favoerite. Something about fire engine red ... and young Greek Adonises ... The makeup artists wipe on the artificial sweat. Portrait of the fashion designer as a young man - which he is - just 23. Another little tennis number - and perfect for riding a bike. Not easy to pull off the weedy sunken chest look when you're born like this.