Proenza Schouler Catwalk Fashion Show SS10

September 17, 2009 by  
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Proenza Schouler Catwalk Fashion Show SS10

September 17, 2009 by  
Filed under Fashion, New York, womenswear

They  wanted something young and fresh, so the guys from Proenza Schouler looked to surfing and skating, the things they grew up on. They took the notion of track jackets wrapped around waists and built those elements right into tank dresses and shirtdresses, and they teamed a pair of color-blocked track pants with a great tailored jacket for a sporty-chic effect. It’s the sort of nonchalant look a lot of designers are looking for,  and these guys nailed it perfectly.  For evening, the silhouette was short, short, short. A few of the cocktail numbers featured the bra-cup bodies the duo has made their signature, mixed with tiers of micro ruffles. Other dresses floated away from the body.  The models wore wedge-heel woven sandals as colorful as the clothes.

Oscar de la Renta Catwalk Fashion Show SS10

September 17, 2009 by  
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It was not Oscar the la Renta’s best show, but there were still more than enough rich details to go around as if we’re not in the middle of a crisis.  There was a lot of color too.  A vibrant  safari suit updated with wide sleeves and cropped pants, a smart silk  dress with a draped neckline in pale melon, and a bronze linen trench with pushed-up sleeves stood out among white broderie anglaise and creamy tweeds.

Michael Kors Catwalk Fashion Show SS10

September 17, 2009 by  
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Michael Kors was thinking about architectural shapes, and sent out a sleek collection that seemed an ode to the city in springtime.  The strong yet rounded shoulders of his jackets and vests put the power in power suit. Overall  he was more interested in sleeveless shift dresses, a favorite of his  client Michelle Obama. They came in silver crinkle lamé, crushed techno taffeta, draped jersey, and soft leather. Kors created surface interest elsewhere with zipper accents that zigzagged around the torso or with bold cutouts that exposed a flash of rib on a cocktail dress.

Oscar de la Renta Catwalk Fashion Show SS10

September 17, 2009 by  
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Snapshot from the photographers-pitch

September 17, 2009 by  
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Streetwear New York SS10 Day 5

September 17, 2009 by  
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What are you wearing during Fashionweek? Your Givenchy-heels, your latest Marni-dress or that vintage Chanel? Maybe we will spot you in Paris, Milan, New York or Amsterdam. During the fashionweeks we refresh our streetwear-category daily. We don’t judge, we’re not the fashion-police, we just enjoy fashion and your own personal style. Next stop: New York Fashion Week.

Streetwear New York SS10 Day 4

September 16, 2009 by  
Filed under New York, Streetwear

What are you wearing during Fashionweek? Your Givenchy-heels, your latest Marni-dress or that vintage Chanel? Maybe we will spot you in Paris, Milan, New York or Amsterdam. During the fashionweeks we refresh our streetwear-category daily. We don’t judge, we’re not the fashion-police, we just enjoy fashion and your own personal style. Next stop: New York Fashion Week.

Marc by Marc Jacobs Catwalk Fashion Show SS10

September 16, 2009 by  
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The Marc by Marc Jacobs line he presented for Spring  was one of his liveliest in a while. Maybe it’s because Marc Jacobs borrowed some of the details from his own recent oeuvre. To start with, the models all wore bunny bows in their hair, like Madonna’s Vuitton getup at the Met Ball, but in a smaller version. Then there were the jackets and coats with the still-directional forties-by-way-of-the-eighties  shoulders. Fall’s neons reappeared as well. But not everything was taken from Jacobs’ previous collections. The African-inspired prints he used for easy, belted day dresses played into New York’s  tribal trend. And Jacobs also showed a lot of jumpsuits—the cutest in sporty blue. How daring.

Rodarte Catwalk Fashion Show SS10

September 16, 2009 by  
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The Rodarte-girls have created their own world. An imaginary world that’s ferocious rather than precious, not to mention very influential. And with its gothic character, it’s particularly in tune with the moment.
This collection, which married primitivism to futurism, was one of Rodarte’s most fully realized. The silhouettes were familiar, the  construction of the garments represented the apotheosis of the techniques—in knitwear, printing, draping —that the Mulleavy-sisters have been refining season after season. They aged, painted, burned, shredded, sandpapered, and otherwise destroyed all of the materials—including grungy scraps of plaid, plastic, cheesecloth, wool cobweb, crystals, macramé, leather, and more—until they bore only traces of what they had been originally.
The idea that someone could “be scarred and still beautiful” was the collection’s leitmotif. The designers made up their own story about a woman burned alive and  who is transformed into a California condor. Forced to survive in a war-torn landscape, she pieces together her attire from rags that only serve to expose her wounds.

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