At Tommy Hilfiger's 8 p.m. show yesterday evening, the fash pack was waning and looking for a jolt of transformative fashion. "I am looking for a surprise," Marie Claire editor Joanna Coles said. "It's the end of a long day. We've had all sorts of weather. There's been in a snowstorm, we had a brief heat moment then we had deep icy conditions, so I am looking to be transported."
Set against the backdrop of a grand country driveway with gravel, auburn-leafed trees and rustic lampposts, Hilfiger did just that, sending us to a chic hunt club in the countryside.
Coles, who is currently having "enormous fun" as the mentor to the designers of Project Runway: All Stars, explained that she's found her own way of differentiating herself from the beloved Tim Gunn. "People keep asking me what the difference between me and Tim Gunn is, and I like to think it's that I have had sex more recently."
Next, we chatted with Steven Tyler spawn Mia Tyler, who was there with her sister, budding singer Chelsea. After admitting she's a tomboy when it comes to fashion, we wondered if she would be able to hang with the The Hilfigers in their outdoorsy spring campaign. "I love camping," she exclaimed. "One of my favorite things in the world is to camp. I was living in California for a while so we would go to Kern Valley, and I got stuck in a beaver dam once -- wrong place, wrong time. I love, like, living in a tent for a week and being grimy with no cell phone."
Photo: Chance Yeh/PatrickMcMullan.com
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