Koi Suwannagate

In a sunny and intimate hotel suite at the Morgans Hotel in midtown Manhattan, L.A.-based designer Koi Suwannagate proudly gave me a personal tour of her pared-down and beautiful Fall 2009 collection. This season, Koi...

A lesson I learnt the hard way during my undergrad studies in fashion design is that not all great design is about doing something completely new, or even pushing the metaphorical envelope. Sometimes, it's...