I’ve been keeping up with what has been happening on the other side of the pond this fashion week. New York tends to be quite a bit more wearable than the more experimental displays of Paris and London. So here are my picks from NY.
Phi‘s collection was epitomised silk Georgette with mesh 1920s flapper style detailing. However, the floaty beauty was counterbalanced with harder edged accessories (black leather corset belts) and jodhpur shapes.
No New York Fashion week round up would be complete without a mention of Marc Jacobs’ collection. His mash-up of a collection included references to Mary Poppins in the form of hats, prairie girls in the form of bustled skirts and checked shirts, Japanese geisha with the Obi belts that seemed to be one of the few thematic links throughout the collection, as well as all of the lurex and layering you could ever imagine. It sounds like a mess, but somehow it seems to work.
Rodarte had some beautiful dresses. The hand dyed grecian dresses, embellished with chains were lovely, however I would probably not have imagined them with the tights and the shoes the models were wearing. Imagine the violet and white ones with black tights or bare legs and a high s&m shoe or boot and a leather jacket and you have my dream outfit for next summer.
The origami shapes shown at Calvin Klein were not necessarily some of designer Francisco Costa’s most wearable shapes but were very interesting to look at, yet may not flatter the female form so well. Designs leaned towards the boxy and didn’t particularly enhance any of the models’ sex appeal. Its always a danger when the models don’t look sexy, what hope will any mere mortals have with his collection? However I have fallen in love with the last look of the collection; a one shouldered polar blue creation with these crazy origami pleats.
I’m really looking forward to London fashion week. I hope the present economic circumstances don’t mean the designers play it safe. London is best when it is chaotic and crazy.