To end day two of New York Fashion week, we made our way to the Carlos Campos presentation downtown.
Though designer Carlos Campos is known for his well-tailored, modern menswear (he recently won the Fashion Group International’s Rising Star Award for menswear design in 2009), he’s shown his ability to masterfully create women’s clothing as well, ever since his debut women’s wear line last fall for the spring/summer 2009 show.
His spring/summer 2010 collection had a good number of wearable separates. Campos also had his own version of the bowed fabric belt at …

In addition to attending the Twinkle by Wenlan show at Fashion Week in New York, we also caught the Yigal Azrouël show at The Promenade at Bryant Park.
Spring/summer 2010 is all about geometry for Azrouël, who showed some very uniquely cut pieces in both light and structured fabrics. Achieving this look can be done by pairing unusual pieces with more cleanly cut, classic and simple pieces.

ASPIRE (Asian Sisters Participating in Reaching Excellence) will hold its 5th Annual Asian American Women in Leadership (AAWIL) Conference on Saturday, Oct. 3, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Boston University’s Photonics Center.
This year’s theme is “Fearless Leadership: Taking Charge with Confidence,” and will include a morning keynote by Carmen Van Kerckhove, co-founder and president of a diversity education firm, New Demographic, and an afternoon keynote by Rosie Abriam, president and CEO of The Center for Asian Pacific American Women.