Josh Goot for Target, A Closer Look.

The Josh Goot for Target collection takes inspiration from Josh Goot's trademark style, including key items from his current range. It features racer back tanks, leggings, pencil skirts, cardigans and blazers, easy dresses for everyday and evening, as well as the famous jersey trench coat. So now, following on from yesterday's post, Fashion Designer Josh Goot on Target, let's take a closer look at each item (Click on images for detailed view).

This first picture here shows the Josh Goot for Target pencil skirt in black which will retail at $59.99. It will also be available in bright green. The picture also shows the Josh Goot for Target racer back tank in silver foil which will retail at $59.99. The tank is also available in navy and bright green. In the picture you can see that the pencil skirt and racer back tank have been matched up with the Josh Goot for Target tailored jacket in navy. The jacket retails at $99.99. It's great how you can mix and match the items in the collection to create different looks.

The three pictures immediately below show the dresses in the Josh Goot for Target collection. The first is a picture of the Josh Goot for Target racer back dress in silver foil which is also available in bright blue. The second shows the Josh Goot for Target tie waist dress with racer back in black/grey and the third, the scoop back dress in black foil. Each of these Josh Goot for Target dresses will retail at $89.99.

At the top end of the Josh Goot for Target price range you have the Longline zip front hooded jacket and the trench coat. These are shown in the two pictures below. The first of these shows the Josh Goot for Target Longline zip front hooded jacket in black foil. This jacket will retail at $129.99. The second picture below shows the Josh Goot for Target trench coat in grey marle. The trench coat will also be available in silver foil and will retail at $129.99. The trench coat is shown with the Josh Goot rib tank in black retailing at $59.99 (also available in grey marle and bright blue), and the legging in black foil $69.99.

All styles come in the size range of XS – L and all fabric is Tencel Wool

As you can see from the pictures above, the Josh Goot designers for Target collection takes inspiration from Josh Goot's trademark style, including key items from his current range and signature shades of grey marle and silver (see the Josh Goot Spring 2007 collection, New York City video on the sidebar), with a more sophisticated navy and black along with splashes of bright green and blue.

True to Josh Goot's own collection, the range draws on themes such as ease and simplicity. “We have utilised high quality blended knits and popular finishes - the result is a fresh and current look that lets the wearer feel cool and modern.” says Goot.

Target’s General Manager of Merchandise, Larice Lewis, says “Josh Goot is one of Australia’s coolest and most promising young designers and Target is thrilled to have Josh Goot on board as our latest local designer. We’ve got a huge talent pool of great designers in Australia and Target is passionate about continuing to support them on a local level.”

The Josh Goot designers for Target collection is sure to be popular amongst Australia’s most fashion conscious and Josh Goot fans alike.

Fashion Designer Josh Goot on Target!

Hands up those who thought it was going to be Lisa Ho! Maybe you were wishing for Alex Perry or perhaps Nicola Finetti or Zimmermann! Or may be, following on from Stella McCartney, you had your fingers crossed for another international fashion designer like New York based Marc Jacobs or Kenneth Cole. No, but the fashion pundits including Patty Huntington of The Sydney Morning Herald got it right and as predicted in my April 29 post, Fashion Designer Josh Goot for Target, today in their Press Release Target announced that the Australian and internationally acclaimed, award wining fashion designer label Josh Goot will be the next fashion designer for the Designers for Target collection following in the footsteps of Stella McCartney.

Now that it has been confirmed that Josh Goot will be the next fashion designer for the Designers for Target collection, two question spring to my mind. Firstly, what will the collection look like, and secondly, will this womens designer clothing collection be hot!

What will the Josh Goot for Target Collection Look Like?

So now what will the Josh Goot for Target collection look like? I spoke about this in my post Fashion Designer Josh Goot for Target on April 29 when I suggested that it will more than likely be based on the same predominantly grey marl signature shades as in previous Josh Goot collections. I mentioned that the clue to what a Josh Goot for Target collection would look like could be found in the Josh Goot collection showcased in Australian Fashion Week and on this point, in his comments during an interview with Rebekah van Druten of the ABC News: Arts & Entertainment site, "The Fashion End" Josh Goot said that "we can expect a lot of bright, fresh, young, sexy clothing. You can expect some new silhouettes from the brand, some new fabric and some new lines."

This has now been confirmed in Target's Press Release which states that "the slick modern womens wear line combines smart tailoring, great basics and sporty dresses. Goot offers signature shades of grey marl and silver, with a more sophisticated navy and black along with splashes of bright green and blue. This range takes inspiration from Josh Goot's trademark style, including key items from his current range. It features racer back tanks, leggings, pencil skirts, cardigans and blazers, easy dresses for everyday and evening, as well as the famous jersey trench coat." In the Press Release Josh Goot is quoted as saying that "we have utilised high quality blended knits and popular finishes - the result is a fresh and current look that lets the wearer feel cool and modern." And it mentions that the entire range for Target comprises Australian Merino Wool. All this sounds exciting so I can't wait to see the Josh Goot, Designers for Target collection.

Will the Josh Goot for Target Collection be Hot?

Josh Goot's designs are currently available through leading retailers including Colette in Paris, Browns Focus in London, Henri Bendel in New York and Neiman Marcus in Los Angeles. These are high end boutiques so you can imagine the prices! But soon the Josh Goot label will be available in a Target store near you.

As Josh Goot himself said when asked by Rebekah van Druten of the ABC News: Arts & Entertainment site, "The Shallow End" whether he would consider creating a collection for chain stores, "I think it's great to give a wider audience access to great clothes and great designs. I think it's really important. I think it's one of the more exciting initiatives or developments in global fashion this millennium."

The other question for me is, will the not so well known Josh Goot create the same mania and hysteria that Stella McCartney did with her womens designer clothing collection for Target ? Will Target shelves around the country be stripped bare within minutes of the arrival of the Josh Goot collection?

Well we don't have to wait too long to find out the answer to this question as the Josh Goot for Target collection, will be available in selected Target stores on June 19. Given that the clothes in the designer collection will be priced between $59.99 and $129.99 (Racer Back Tank $59.99, Pencil Skirt $59.99, Jersey Dresses $89.99, Tailored Jacket $99.99, Hooded Jacket $129.99, Trenchcoat $129.99), the Josh Goot collection for Target will be hot! Tarjay away :)

Photos from Style.com and taken by by Marcio Madeira.

Australian Fashion Week Roundup - Big names stay away!

Oh how some things make me really mad!!!

I read an article "Big names stay away" while doing some online reading about Australian Fashion Week, recently held in Sydney. The article cites a Sydney fashion label owner, Danny Avidan, whose Discovery Group includes well-known fashion labels Charlie Brown and lili, as saying that Australian Fashion Week lacked participation by Australia's own established brands because the fashion week organizers, IMG Fashion, erred in focusing on new talent and failing to persuade more of the country's top operators back to showcase their latest designs. His following statement, and I quote, really ruffled my feathers.

"I think fashion week is a fantastic opportunity for new and emerging talent, but for an established brand to participate in the week is like Madonna going on American Idol."

I couldn't believe that I read this. I couldn't believe that this Sydney fashion label owner really said this. In fact, I wrote to The Age to let them know what I thought about this. Is this fashion designer right? Would established brands avoid participating in fashion week because they would be mixing it with too many new and emerging talents? Would this happen in Paris, London, Milan, Tokyo or New York Fashion Weeks? Does participation of younger, new and emerging talent somehow dilute the standard or quality of Fashion Week shows? I wonder how the many young, new and emerging fashion designer talent around the world would feel about this! I wonder what other established designers around the world think about this!

Aren't Fashion Weeks about showcasing "new and up-and-coming collections" from talented fashion designers whether young and emerging or from the older brigade? Shouldn't Fashion Week's job be to expose all segments? Talented young and emerging fashion designers, and I also include Fashion School graduates in this, also need exposure to the buyers and the press etc who frequent these shows. This experience could easily be the biggest turning point for a young, very talented and creative fashion designer and be that needed break that launches him/her into that established fashion club. Indie and new fashion designers may not as yet have an established name but they often bring a real buzz to these shows! Focusing more on rising talent, and less on established names might be a cry out for something new and exciting!!

It's great to see our most talented young designers amongst the big names. I'm unapologetic about my view on this and would love to hear what other fashionistas and fashion designers, both established and up-and-coming think about this! I would also love to hear what fashion buyers and the fashion press think about this!

Photo: Vogue

Fashion Designer Josh Goot for Target

Last year it was Sydney-based fashion designer labels Alice McCall and Tina Kalivas and the Melbourne designer label T.L. Wood and then, earlier this year it was Stella McCartney's. But who will be the next fashion designer for the Designers for Target collection?

Will it be another International fashion designer, perhaps New York based Marc Jacobs or Kenneth Cole, or Paris based Hermes, or Costume National of Milan? Or will it be yet another Australian-label, perhaps a designer from Sydney like fashion designer Lisa Ho, Alex Perry, Nicola Finetti and Zimmermann? Then it might well be one of the Melbourne based fashion designers like Alannah Hill? It's a question that everyone has been talking about ever since the Stella McCartney's mania hit Target Stores throughout Australia.

However, with Australian Fashion Week officially launched over night, there are some clues now emerging! In fact, the gossip now is that it will be the Australian and Internationally acclaimed, award wining fashion designer label Josh Goot.

Fashion guru Patty Huntington of The Sydney Morning Herald writes: "Two months after Target shelves around the country were stripped bare within minutes of the arrival of a Stella McCartney's collaboration collection, Target Australia plans to unveil a top secret project with one of Australia's brightest fashion lights, Josh Goot."

Huntington goes on to say that "Target is the principle sponsor of Goot's Fashion Week show on Thursday May 3 at 9.00am - and its logo appears on the invitation. But although neither the Target or Goot camps were spilling any other beans this afternoon, Fashion Season has learned that a Josh Goot/Target collaboration is due be either announced or else unveiled at Target in mid May."

When asked by Rebekah van Druten of the ABC News: Arts & Entertainment site, "The Shallow End" whether he would consider creating a collection for chain stores, Josh Goot replied: "Yeah I would love to. I think it's great. I think it's great to give a wider audience access to great clothes and great designs. I think it's really important. I think it's one of the more exciting initiatives or developments in global fashion this millennium."

So while it hasn't as yet been confirmed, it suggested that Josh Goot will be the next fashion designer for the Designers for Target collection and if it is then the question is, will the not so well known Josh Goot create the same hysteria that Stella McCartney's did with her womens designer clothing collection? Time will tell!

Also, if it is Josh Goot then two other question spring to my mind. Firstly, what can we expect from a Josh Goot/Tarjay collection and secondly, will it be based on the same predominantly grey marl signature shades as in previous Josh Goot collections? The clue to answers to these questions may be found in the Josh Goot collection planned for Australian Fashion Week and on this, the recent Josh Goot interview with Rebekah van Druten of the ABC News: Arts & Entertainment site, "The Fashion End" referred to above might give us some clues. Goot said that "we can expect a lot of bright, fresh, young, sexy clothing. You can expect some new silhouettes from the brand, some new fabric and some new lines. Also a slight ancient Roman current running through it."

And when it comes to the color, Josh Goot says that "What I've done this season is, the colour might be the same but the way that we're dealing with the grey marl is completely different. For example, originally we used it in the 100 per cent cotton. Now we're using it in 100 per cent viscose, we're using it in other blended knits - for example, modal and elastic ... So the grey marl is now being treated by us in a completely different way and performing at a much higher level. So we've evolved the grey marl and that's what the critics should really be noticing."

So it will be interesting to see if the fashion pundits are right and it is Josh Goot, and if so, what the final collection will look like. It will also be very interesting to see if the same hysteria surrounds the release of this collection as it did with the womens designer fashion by Stella McCartney's.

Elle.com - New York Fashion Week Day 3

New York Fashion Week, Fall 2007 is now well in progress and being a fashionista you will undoubtedly have already started seeing, and will no doubt for some time continue to see, many more runway reviews and televised wrap-ups hitting both the traditional media as well as the new media; watch this space! These will show glimpses of fashion models and fashion designers, as well as both the fashion media and general media reporters and their crews, the celebrities like

Britney Spears at the Baby Phat fashion show gracing the front row limelight, the many fashionistas, hoping to catch a glimpse of the beautiful people, in crowded and barely standing room only areas behind the velvet ropes patrolled by stereotyped security staff, and of course, the paparazzi jostling for the best vantage point and hoping that through their lenses they will snap that one in a million shot of a fashion designer, fashion model or fashion conscious celebrity! Thought of in this way you can easily imagine the hustle and the bustle of the meeting of the like-minded at this fashion extravaganza! However, to many a fashionista this would be too much, and to them it is far more enjoyable and less stressful to see this through the eyes of others like Elle Magazine, Elle.com! So once again, with a big thanks to Elle Magazine, here's a video wrap-up from Elle.com with all the action behind the scenes and in the front row of the runway of this fashion extravaganza on Day 3. Here we catch snippets of the collections and insights of the talented fashion designers Lela Rose, Erin Fetherston, Nicole Romano and Phillip Lim. Fashion Designer, Lela Rose Texas native and fashion designer Lela Rose starts off by divulging how she is very much inspired by the fabrics. "Everything starts with fabric," Lela says and when you look at her ready-to-wear collection you can easily see why. Beautiful, hand finished fashions in blacks, whites and greys with shots of rich Spring colors including yellow and crimson, each exuding a casual luxury and refinement. The Lela Rose collection can be found at in-store boutiques in Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus, and Stanley Korshak as well as in over 60 specialty fashion boutiques nationwide. Lela Rose can also be found in Nordstrom and Bloomingdales as well as internationally in fashion stores throughout Canada, Taiwan and Japan. For a closer look at the Lela Rose Spring 2007 New York Fashion Week collection, visit Elle.com. Fashion Designer, Erin Fetherston The Elle.com behind the scenes look at the much spoken about fashion designer Erin Fetherston gives us some insight into her wandering stars collection which she herself describes as being "inspired by things nocturnal and the stars and everything can look more beautiful under the moonlight." While I myself am not hot on the whimsical styles in her Spring 2007 fashion collection, without the wizard caps I do like many of the Erin Fetherston outfits, very original, girlish and fun, and yes the "baby dolls on the moon" are very feminine.

Click on any of the above images to see that particular outfit in the Erin Fetherston Spring 2007 fashion collection in more detail and perhaps you will better see the point I am making about the whimsical look! You can also see lots more of the Erin Fetherston Spring 2007 New York Fashion Week collection at Elle.com. Fashion Designer, Nicole Romano What professional women wouldn't love the Romano collection by notable fashion designer Nicole Romano. Just love her styles, use of bright rich colours and delicate prints. Definitely unique elegance, sensuality, with a strong and playful, flirty and sexy feel about them. It's really no wonder that Nicole Romano is a long time favourite of Sex and the City and loved by so many fashion conscious celebs including Jessica Alba, Drew Barrymore, Alicia Keyes, Heidi Klum, Lindsay Lohan, Sarah Jessica Parker, Shakira, Britney Spears and Gwen Stefani. The Nicole Romano collection, full of vibrant separates for women wanting to make a fashion statement was presented to a packed audience. Fashion Designer, Phillip Lim Gosh after only Day 3 and so many favorites already at this year's New York Fashion Week and here's yet another. Successful fashion designer Phillip Lim's collection of beautiful, chic and elegant designs in soft pristine whites and neutrals demonstrate functional fashion and as succinctly stated by Phillip Lim himself, "every piece has a purpose." Being available in over 250 US boutiques and department stores and represented in 26 countries worldwide Phillip Lim is already a commercial success but there can be little doubt that he will be an even bigger success in the years to come. Photography kindly sponsored by Shopstyle.com and once again a big thank you to Elle.com for the fantastic video wrap-ups. I can't wait to see the next installment!

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