John Simon Daily

Live: Anna Wintour, Michael Kors, and Ryan Murphy at Human Rights Campaign Gala Dinner

John Simon Daily — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:44:33 +0000

Vogue’s Anna Wintour, Designer Michael Kors, and Ryan Murphy just arrived at Human Rights Campaign Gala Dinner.

Live: Michael Kors & Lance LePere at Human Rights Campaign Gala Dinner

John Simon Daily — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:40:25 +0000

Designer Michael Kors and husband Lance LePere arriving at HRC Gala.

Live: Johnny Weir at Human Rights Campaign Gala Dinner

John Simon Daily — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:35:24 +0000

Johnny Weir doing interviews at the HRC Gala Dinner.

Marusya Fall 2012 Collection

John Simon Daily — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:49:12 +0000

Marusya, the couture eveningwear and fur collection by Russian designer Marina Ilchenko, debuted last night at the posh Peninsula Hotel.

The presentation highlighted the designer’s glamorous fur and exotic skins collection handmade by Ilechenko and Russian artisans from mink, fox, chinchilla, swakara, crocodile, and lizard. This season, Ilchenko also used Sable – the world’s finest pelt. The luxurious materials created coats, vests, capes and a dress.

We adored the shoes by United Nude.

The combination of the traditional and modern ideas paved way to the inspiration of Helmut Newton’s work. Marina reinterprets and translate these photographs to come up with a collection full of conviction, power, and temptation. The collection ranges in price from $12,000 to $25,000.

More pictures for your viewing pleasure (Courtesy of John Alston Jr)

Actress Kelly Rutherford

CAROLEE Launches 40th Anniversary Collections

John Simon Daily — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:56:43 +0000

Earlier this week we attended an exclusive invite-only celebration for Carolee 40^th Anniversary. The company celebrated this wonderful milestone at New York’s newest luxury hotel destination, The Setai.

There, Carolee unveiled a 40^th Anniversary Legacy Collection and a collection of Limited Edition Charm Bracelets. Five dollars from each Legacy piece and Limited Edition Charm Bracelet will be donated to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

Karen O’Brien, Carolee VP Worldwide Marketing, announced an annual Carolee jewelry design scholarship program that will commence this Fall. Dr. Joyce Brown, President of FIT, acknowledged Carolee’s industry leadership and thanked the company for the scholarship and for sponsoring an ongoing FIT student design competition. The competition will last through the Spring and will culminate in five winners whose designs will be manufactured by Carolee and distributed to stores this Fall. Joel Fivis, President of Carolee, emphasized the value of the company’s relationship with both the BCRF and FIT and thanked all of Carolee’s retailers and employees for making the 40 year milestone possible.

Congratulations to Carolee and cheers to many more years!

More images from our amazing photographer John Alston Jr.

Fratelli Rossetti teams up with NBC Sports for SUPER BOWL XLVI

John Simon Daily — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:25:31 +0000

Not only will the players on the ﬁeld during SUPER BOWL XLVI display some fancy footwork, but so will the team of anchormen of NBC Sports.

NBC Sports’ stylist Amy Acton has tapped Italian luxury footwear brand Fratelli Rossetti to provide the footwear for the NBC Sports commentating team of 10 men covering every aspect of the game.

“With an estimated 110 million plus viewers watching the coverage, it gives new meaning to the term power dressing. I selected a variety of styles from the Fratelli Rossetti Fall Collection that would best complete the total look I created for each of our air-on talent” said Acton.