Ready To Soar
Last year, young designer Fabiola Arias’ entrance-making dresses snagged her a coveted Fashion Group International Rising Star Award, and she has continued to pick up steam ever since, landing her collection in numerous Neiman Marcus Couture salons and garnering attention from Chicago’s Ikram Goldman.
This season, the Cuban-born Parsons grad made the next natural step in a budding design career, unveiling her latest collection at the Hotel Americano with her first formal fashion show. “I was thinking about winged creatures and my signature style of rich colors and texture manipulation. I just wanted the dresses to look like birds,” she said of the cocktail dresses and gowns, embellished with meticulously feathered chiffon in rich ombré jewel tones. Arias kept the focus on her experiments with fabric, such as a distressed emerald brocade or nude organza scattered with delicate rosettes. Additional drama appeared via headpieces crafted by her mother, a costume designer,Cheap Christian Dior sunglass, and furthered the avian theme with wild fans of exotic feathers. Such confident peacocking appeals to Arias’ ideal customer, “a woman who wants to look like nobody else. She wants to be unique, and is a vibrant and luminous person wearing the most fabulous gowns.”
—Nina Stotler
Photo: Jay Marroquin
Emmanuel Lubezki wins top cinematographers honor
Emmanuel Lubezski, who has already earned a lion’s share of honors this season for his cinematography on Terrence Malick’s family epic, “The Tree of Life,” added another accolade Sunday evening when he won the American Society of Cinematographers’ outstanding achievement award in feature film.
Others nominated were Guillaume Schiffman for “The Artist,” Jeff Cronenweth for “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” Robert Richardson for “Hugo” and Hoyte van Hoytema for “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.”
It was the second ASC award for Lubezki. He previously won five years ago for “Children of Men.”
In the one-hour episodic TV category, Jonathan Freeman won his second ASC award in a row for HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire,wholesale Gucci,” while Michael Weaver was the recipient of the first half-hour TV episodic award for Showtime’s “Californication.” Martin Ruhe won in the TV movie/miniseries category for PBS’ “Page Eight.”
Special honors were also handed out at the 26th ASC Awards, presented during a ceremony at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood and Highland: Harrison Ford received the ASC Board of Governors Award; the Lifetime Achievement Award was given to Dante Spinotti (”Manhunter,” “L.A. Confidential”); William Wages (”Riders of the Purple Sage”) was given the Career Achievement in Television Award; and the ASC Presidents Award was bestowed on Francis Kenny (”Heathers”).
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Movie preview: “The Tree of Life”
– Susan King
Photo: A scene from “The Tree of Life.” Credit: Merie Wallace / Fox
The Juice Is Loose
Orange made a splash on the runways for Spring, but it remained to be seen whether anyone would brave the shade in the real world. Remained, that is, until last night. Drew Barrymore at Emmy Rossum both wore head-to-toe orange stepping out on opposite coasts: Barrymore, in floor-length Jil Sander, in Hollywood at Cover Girl’s 50th anniversary party, and Rossum, in J. Mendel, in New York on Live With Jimmy Fallon. (Chloë Sevigny, ever the early adopter, wore orange last Friday—but we’re honor-bound to report that it was as a Knicks color at a Knicks game.) Will there be more sunshine-bright looks to come? Time will tell. But if you’re looking for an entry point to the trend with a slightly smaller commitment, there’s always the runway-to-reality beauty trend of the moment,wholesale Coach Cheap, a bright orange lip, or Spring’s rash of brilliant accessories, hitting stores now: from left, Prada’s furs to Michael Kors’ ladylike handbag to Tila March’s two-tone tote.
Photos: Jordan Strauss / WireImage (Barrymore); Albert Michael / Startraksphoto.com (Rossum); Courtesy of Prada; Courtesy of Michael Kors; Courtesy of Tila March