Crisp and color-blocked, with stripes as the central motif running throughout, the Michael Kors Spring 2012 collection is a brightly colored return to the preppy minimalism he’s played around with before. Taking his reference points from Op-Art and ’60s couture, he’s...

Time once again to assess the shoved and the frustrated, darlings. We’re tired, so this is all you’re getting in the way of an introductory paragraph.   Carlos Miele Spring 2013 Show Daisy Fuentes Could’ve used a belt, but that’s a pretty sharp look.   Kelly...

If there’s one theme running through the collections so far this season, it’s serenity. There’s this peaceful, almost zen feeling running through the shows, as if fashion looked around at an increasingly scary and divisive world and said “Okay, everyone take a time-out...

There are rarely any surprises in a Carolina Herrera show. Like Oscar de la Renta, she is a sturdy, mountainous, immoveable figure in fashion; one who can be relied upon to consistently reinforce old school femininity and glamour and turn out beautiful collections filled with beautiful...

  It’s an experience going to a Chado Ralph Rucci show. America’s only certified couturier, he remains stubbornly disinterested in trends, fashion magazines, and red carpets. It’s always and forever about the work, and about applying the meticulously impeccable...

When three ukelele players with palm fronds in their hair are placed at the end of the runway to kick off the show, it’s a pretty safe bet that an island theme is heading your way. What makes this collection more than just a chance to put on a lei are the beautiful prints, evoking...

Taking inspiration from birds, fish, and moonlight on waves might seem a little easy or obvious at first. After all, they’re universally considered beautiful on their own. Still, this collection of looks manages to find its own interpretation of these things and offer up a different...

  Inspired by a recent performance of the American Ballet Theatre’s “The Dream,” Christian Siriano offered up an ethereal collection of pale pastels and ultra-femininity; lots of pearl encrusted details, white feathers, and tulle. Part princess, part ballerina; with a...

  Once again – and forevermore  – the DKNY show was about the strong, confident, New York City woman with places to go and people to see. It’s always about finding the power in femininity with Donna Karan. This time around, it was power suits with sheer blouses,...

Darlings, it’s time once again to check in on the fashionable and sweaty. Please be kind, kittens. Half the people in these pictures? Their feet are KILLING them. Trust. Billy Reid Spring 2013 Show Gabriel Mann We salute you, Gabriel Mann. You are possibly the only 40-year-old man on...

The notes for this show (entitled “Batteries Not Included”) referenced ’80s surrealist art, techno, sci-fi, “digital nature,” and, the one that tied it all together for us, “bad girl/good girl.” That latter phrase tends to hit right at the heart of...

Darlings, it’s time once again to check in on the front row action at New York Fashion Week. Bear in mind that the tents and venues of Fashion Week are about as far from the average red carpet experience as one can get; cramped, sweaty and frantic. It’s amazing some of these...

Inspired by femme fatales and the black-and-white photography of Helmut Newton, the BCBGMAXAZRIA spring 2013 collection seems, to us, to have missed its mark. Instead of evoking the fluidity and sexiness of its stated inspirations, the looks are complicated to the point of being overworked....

  Evoking a desert feel with its use of sandy beiges and cinnamon tones, the Nicholas K collection took it one step further through the deployment of its signature sense of layering and use of headwear. The result? Bedouin chic. No one can layer like Nicholas K can. It seems to be...

Darlings, while we spend the next couple of hours frantically uploading all 10,000 Project Runway decoy collections, we thought you deserved some Fashion with a capital F, as well as some hardcore pretty. Kittens have no doubt heard us complain over and over again about the preponderance of...