Viktor & Rolf Fall 2011 Collection Man, we wish we could do these kinds of accessories posts every day. Scour the fall collections looking for 30 or so purses or shoes, upload them to a post and let the commentariat have their way while we sip frozen drinks with umbrellas in them....

  Prada Fall 2011 Collection Darlings, 5 years of blogging has taught us several lessons. Most of them are boring, but for the purposes of this post, the most important one is: With ladies and shoes, it’s best to slap up the pictures and get the hell out of the way. Thus, we have...

  Oscar de la Renta Fall 2011 Collection At some point during New York Fashion Week, we got to talking about all the shades of greens and blue-ish greens walking the runways. We weren’t – and still aren’t – sure some of these shades are going to trickle down to...

Talk about your proverbial treat for the eyes. It’s always interesting to see what Manish Arora is going to present every season. His collections are always colorful, rich in details, and offer just enough of a twist on forms and shapes as to always make it interesting. This collection...

The inspiration for this collection was a contemporary take on Vermeer’s famous “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” and Flemish still life paintings. It took a bit of squinting but we finally got the connection with the strong lines and the play of light and dark occasionally...

Once again, Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccoli put their own touches on the Valentino line while reaching at the same time into the house archive for inspiration. We love the result. There’s a feeling of tension in these designs, a pulling in opposite directions; romantic and...

Titled “The Ice Queen and her Court,” the latest McQueen collection from Sarah Burton wallowed in some of the references McQueen himself was known for – wild fantasy coupled with a sort of European regalism – while managing not to look like it was treading paths already...

The “Lo hearts Flo” campaign continues as we check out this truly stylish gals looks for the week as she makes the rounds of the Paris shows.   At Chanel Fall 2011 Show In Chanel Spring 2011 Collection Not our favorite look. A bit too busy and a bit too covered up for our...

The word of the day, unfortunately, is lackluster. Ever the Clown Prince of Fashion, Jean Paul Gaultier seems to have paid short shrift to the fashion part this time around and got a little too caught up in the clown part. We’ve always loved his lighthearted approach to things in an...

Project Runway Season 8 winner (and easily the most controversial win in the show’s history) Gretchen Jones debuted her fall collection. We’ll let Gretchen have the floor:  “Gretchen Jones’ FW2011 Collection, “Black Tears and Strange Dream,” is named after a...

It’s rare, when a designer says their inspiration was armor, for the clothes to actually evoke armor in any but the most esoteric of way, because conventional wisdom would have it that you can’t make clothes for the 21st Century woman that look too much like real armor. Well,...

In light of John Galliano’s recent troubles, the Christian Dior show was a toned-down presentation, less dramatic than one would normally expect. This time, the theatricality that characterized Galliano’s shows was banned, and the proceedings were much more focused on the clothes....

Christopher Kane presented looks with plastic detailing filled with vegetable oil and glycerine as part of his fall 2011 collection during London Fashion Week. We are intrigued. Check it: We might come off terribly conventional in our fashion opinions, but that has more to do with the type of...

With all the ’80s looks walking the runways lately, it was only a matter of time before someone had the nerve to make Duckie from Pretty in Pink into a fashion icon in 2011. And why not? Jon Cryer’s character inspired an entire generation of sexually confused boys to button their...

Tired of the ’70s retreads on the runway? Well, good news. Stefano and Domenico are all about the ’80s right now. And not the New Wave ’80s that other designers are dabbling in; no, Dolce and Gabbana went for the late ’80s, neon and candy-colored, high-top sneakers and...

David Neville and Marcus Wainwright of Rag & Bone turned to Edward, Duke of Windsor to inspire their menswear collection and the result is a tweedy, plaidy, array of old school gentlemen’s clothing. And in the best gentleman’s tradition, the clothes are rich and woven with...

Frida Giannini hasn’t left the ’70s for this collection but since this is the 1970s by way of the 1940s (in other words, the truly chic and timeless part of the ’70s), we can’t complain. In fact, complaining seems completely inappropriate when we’re faced with...

Diane von Furstenberg took the trends for this season; reds and blacks, vivid blues and teals, an overall sense of glamour and luxury, and interpreted them through the DVF lens. It’s, as usual, an urban sort of chic with a touch of the international and more than a touch of disco. DVF...

Thakoon Panichgul says he took inspiration for this collection when he noticed the similarities between the costumes of Versailles and the garments worn by Kenyan tribes. Even for the world of fashion, that’s a pretty eclectic mix. He’s known for mixing prints, and does so here,...

As this show opened to the dulcet tones of Dusty Springfield informing the collective gathering that “You don’t own me,” we couldn’t help wondering if she was singing about the parade of coats and jackets in front of them; a collection of highly covetable pieces that...

“Listen, sister, when are you going to get wise to yourself?” It’s kind of hard to pin down the references here – and there are always references with a Marc Jacobs collection. One of the things that makes him so interesting is his tendency to veer wildly off in...