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New York Fashion Week Recap
New York Fashion Week was held September 6-13, and “bold” was the word that buzzed around the tents at Lincoln Center. The first day of fall is Saturday, but nearly 200 designers previewed their spring collections in New York before the fashion crowd heads to London, Milan and Paris. This time, there were certainly clear trends — among them skirt suits, big colors, below-the-knee coats, leather, cutouts, corsets and banding, stripes and black-and-white. There were also hints of India and other exotic locales. And the prints were edgier than what are usually offered in spring — instead of “pretty” florals, there were digital renderings, X-ray patterns, and even skulls.
Statement made at Ralph Lauren: Be strong. Be bold. Go on that adventure. A colorful blanket-style serape was getting buzz from editors and stylists before they even left the downtown show space where Olivia Wilde and Jessica Alba sat in the front row. There were beaded bolero jackets and embellished pants that evoked a matador to the Spanish-style music, with flat-top hats and colorful scarves around some models’ necks.
New York Fashion Week has seen a lot of mixing and matching of fabrics, colors and textures, making for all sorts of chic and sometimes kooky combinations for the upcoming spring season. Anna Sui’s spin was to clash centuries. She was fascinated by the period following the fall of Napoleon III in the late 19th century after reading a historical book this summer. She also found herself inspired by neo-classical painters and how they evolved into the Impressionists. As typical with Sui, there also was a little punk edge.
Francisco Costa, women’s creative director at Calvin Klein, got to have final say Thursday at New York Fashion Week as one of the last major designers to preview a spring collection, but he left a purposeful impression of things left undone. Edges were left frayed, contrasting linings were revealed, and necklines were bare and exposed, all giving the impression that one was seeing more than they should. But the fact that almost every outfit featured black here can’t be called part of that trend — it’s a way of life for this design house.
Just before Fashion Week began, IMG Models announced top fashion model, Karlie Kloss, as the newest addition to their distinguished portfolio of international talent. Kloss began her modeling career at a young age when she was discovered at a charity fashion show in St. Louis. Her classical ballet training is credited for her elegance and presence on the runway as well as her powerful show walk. She has walked for numerous designers in New York, Paris and Milan such as Prada, Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Miu Miu, Dolce & Gabbana and Versace among many others. Kloss is ranked second on the Top 50 Models Women’s list by Models.com and declared one of the top 30 models of the 2000s by Vogue Paris.
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Sean blogs about shopping, fashion, pop culture and all things style in St. Louis.
