Wednesday, February 02, 2005

J.Lo makes Fashion Week debut

Will Lopez’s fall hodgepodge of cashmere sweaters and houndstooth slacks put her on equal footing with Sean Combs, who five years ago used Fashion Week to catapult Sean John into the stratosphere?

You just know they’ll be calling her Jenny from the Tents.

Olympus Fashion Week, underway Friday in Bryant Park, will conclude Feb. 11 with a kick-your-neighbor’s-shins-to-get-in media circus: the debut runway collection of an upscale contemporary line called Sweetface, from Jennifer Lopez.

Will Lopez’s fall hodgepodge of cashmere sweaters and houndstooth slacks put her on equal footing with Sean Combs, who five years ago used Fashion Week to catapult Sean John into the stratosphere?

“Let’s answer that after Jennifer’s show comes down the runway,” says Fern Mallis, executive director of 7th on Sixth, organizers of the semiannual midtown glamazon-fest. [via NY Newsday]