A Stable Hemline
After vacillating for several seasons, an influential band of Seventh Avenue taste makers settled on a length for day that was fresh, youthful and, at times, even disarmingly sexy.
View ArticleA Mash-Up of Extras
Forget the fascinator, the Duchess of Cambridge’s topper of choice. Some of the most arresting heads this week were wrapped and tied retro-style in a manner evoking Lucille Ball.
View ArticleOnce Again, They Like Ike
The primly corseted silhouettes of the late 1950s are back, based on Milan and New York shows.
View ArticleIn Paris, Piety and Purity
The twin themes resulted in collections bathed in incandescent white and highlighted by wimples, veils, cassocks and other mass-worthy raiment stripped down, and softened, for a modern eye.
View ArticleMissoni Style Everywhere You Look
The Missoni for Target collection sold out within days, creating a reborn demand for all things Missoni — or at least a passable facsimile of the house’s kaleidoscopic multitone wares.
View ArticleCool, Condensed
The children’s collection at Gap Kids has drawn in lithe-framed women, like Carla Bruni-Sarkozy and Kristin Chenoweth, as fans.
View ArticleWhy Deco Now?
Every fashion designer, they say, is an architect manque, intent on imposing a structure on the human form. That observation seemed especially apt in a season filled with dresses constructed to echo...
View ArticleTrendspotting: Harmonious Collisions
Herringbone tweeds kept company with chevron stripes; bird’s-eye weaves with elephantine plaids; pompoms with flannels and nomadic motifs.
View ArticleIt’s All About the Shine
For New York Fashion Week, the objective seemed to be to fashion as many looks as conceivable from ultra-glossy patent leather.
View ArticleA Cooling Counterpoint
Strict combinations of black and white emerged on the runways this week as a cooling counterpoint to the riotously clashing colors and patterns surfacing in so many shows.
View ArticleA Touch of Fetish
Restraint was the message on some New York runways. Er, make that restraints.
View ArticleWarm-Weather Leathers
Set on making the most of a good thing, a clutch of designers has reprised last season’s swoony romance with leather, trotting out unlikely springtime variations.
View ArticleTrendspotting: Taffeta and Tulle at the Golden Globes
As he escorted stars from the stage to the red carpet last night, Ryan Seacrest, a host on the E! Entertainment Golden Globes broadcast, was compelled to exhort repeatedly, “Be careful getting down.”...
View ArticleTrendspotting: Whites
Arctic whites appeared at Hermès, Comme des Garçons and Rick Owens.
View ArticleTrendspotting: Casual Jackets
The blouson and perfecto jackets are integral to men’s wear, but this season designers are making them stars.
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