Hotel Chelsea Fashion News

From a recent NYTimes profile of William Ivey Long.  By the time Long graduated from Yale in 1975, he had been in college and graduate school for 10 years and had no idea how to look for a job. He moved into the Chelsea Hotel to be near one of his idols, the couturier Charles James, who lived there and for whom Long worked, unpaid, until James died in 1978. But he couldn't find work in the theater and had what he calls ''breakdowns'' for two years. ''When I came to New York, I was so scared that I would eat one banana and one yogurt a day, and I weighed 135 pounds,'' he said. ''So I arrived with the least amount of energy you could possibly have. I can only imagine now that here was this scarecrow person, lacking the kick and drive and the clawing that I have shown is the center of my work ethic ever since. (Source: New York Times, Jan 29. 2006)

Our resident fashionista Sally Singer declares that New York is back in fashion again. "I think it's another indication that the momentum of fashion and Fashion Week has moved back to New York," says Sally Singer, Vogue's fashion news/features director. (Source: Newsday, Feb. 2, 2006)

Zaldy was one of the designers up for this year's Fashion Group International's Rising Star Award.