Taking her inspiration from the Taos art colony of the twenties and thirties, designer Nicholas Kunz offered up a layered desert chic for the jetsetting bohemians of the 21st Century in a subtle, soothing, muted palette. We always drool over Nicholas K’s menswear, so we’ll take...

Taking her inspiration from the 1942 film “Cat People,” Catherine Malandrino offered an array of luxurious, sensual and yes, even feral looks, rendered in fur, leather, and sheers, with beading, lace and crystals to bump up the richness and textural feel even further. Finishing...

Pinstripes, double-breasted blazers, tuxedo coats, pocket squares and even jaunty little fedoras dominated this collection. And yet, you couldn’t rightly call any of these elegant looks masculine or even androgynous. Despite their menswear origins, these looks are feminine to the core...

Michael Bastian looked to his own time in college for this collection, taking inspiration from old friends and even his younger, ’80s self. You’d think such a specific and highly personal starting point might result in something either too obscure to the outsider or too literal a...

We’re home, darlings! Our cologne bottles didn’t break in our luggage and our cats didn’t eat each other in a horrifying, frenzied lapse into feralism OR destroy anything in kitty resentment. All is right with the world. But we just can’t say goodbye to Fashion Week...

You’ll never be disappointed with a Monique Lhuillier show; not if you like dramatic and luxurious gowns and dresses. You’ll never walk out of that tent uttering, “Meh.” It’s gloriously dramatic and glamorous, all the time. Taking her inspiration from the Year of...

It’s the morning of our seventh straight day of running from one end of Manhattan to the other, trying to fit in every show we’ve been invited to, and it’s finally happened: we’ve hit the wall. We expect to see a “spotted in the tents” item that goes like...

When you read show notes that tell you the collection you’re about to see took its inspiration from the “Golden Age of Shanghai,” then it’s not out of the question that one would settle back for a series of high-necked Chinoiserie dresses in the Dietrich style, but...

3.1 Philip Lim Fall 2012 Show Gia Coppola Love the jacket. J Alexander That might be just a bit much yellow for us, Miss J. Joe Zee Linda Fargo She never looks anything but impeccable. Lorenzo Martone and Rachel Zoe Nina Garcia This entire look is to die. Betsey Johnson Fall 2012 Show Fern...

If seeing the Simon Spurr collection up close was akin to a religious experience for us, then seeing the Duckie Brown collection up close was like having a vision in a sweat lodge; stunning, expressive and thought-provoking, you’ll spend days afterwards trying to interpret it....

The notes didn’t say so, but this collection came across to us a direct appeal to the NYC gal; tough, ballsy, occasionally in your face, but feminine to the core. The kind of gal who can rock a leather jacket and 5-inch heels while navigating subway grates. Having the models walk in...

Taking its inspiration from Robert Frank’s iconic photographs of umbrella-toting, derby-sporting, bespoke-suited men in the London fog, this collection almost made us cry, it was that beautiful. We don’t know what the hell anyone else in that room was feeling and we didn’t much...

Darlings, it’s time once again to check in on the famous, the nearly famous, and the pseudo-famous in the front rows of New York Fashion Week. And also to judge them!   Derek Lam Fall 2012 Show Anna Wintour Serving it up, Wintour-style. Glenda Bailey Joe Zee, Robbie Myers, Anne...

Christian Siriano’s always had a flair for the dramatic in his designs, but there was something more refined about the kind of drama he was serving up this time. There was a sense that he was appealing to a more sophisticated and slightly more mature customer. There were, of course,...

We had the rare privilege of backstage access for the show, which was thrilling not only because we could watch the models being made up and look at the clothes up close on the racks, but because the inspiration board for the collection was set out. Lots of  Mick Jagger and Rolling Stones...

When the opportunity arose to attend the presentation for this collection, we cleared our schedules immediately. There was no way we were missing this one. As we said to each other while we waited outside to be let in, “No matter what, these clothes are going to be impeccable, perfectly...

Celebrities, darlings! Aren’t they just the answer to EVERYTHING? Christian Siriano Fall 2012 Show Alicia Solombrino You can’t say she didn’t commit to the look, that’s for sure. Brad Goreski This all looks surprisingly mismatched to us. Cindy Adams Bringing it,...

Let’s start off Sunday morning right, mkay?   BAM. There you go.   Now, we could talk about the clothes at the Nautica presentation, which were, typically for Nautica, masculine and sexy in an “I want to go boating with him and that’s totally not a euphemism okay...

In the show notes, after the information about the blending of modern tech and old techniques through the use of digital printing on unusual surfaces like velvet, neoprene and tweed, there were only two sentences talking about the inspiration  behind the collection: “The collection...

Celebrity-watching is ever so much more fun than bird-watching, don’t you find? General Idea Fall 2012 Show Kellan Lutz We have a story. Unless you’re sitting directly across from them, it’s sometimes hard to see which celebrities are attending a show because the tent is...

You can never, ever, ever accuse Cynthia Rowley of taking fashion too seriously. Nor can you accuse of her being a trend chaser. It’s not that she makes clothes for herself, but she clearly makes clothes for women like her, urban, educated, expressive, upscale women – who all kind...