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Fashion Week SS07: Badgley Mischka
Umbrellas were the most popular accessory at the Badgley Mischka show, held on a rainy day in Bryant Park.
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Fashion Week SS07: Behnaz Serafpour
A young and/or influential crowd showed up for Behnaz Serafpour’s show, held at Exit Art on 10th Avenue.
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Fashion Week SS07: Oscar de la Renta
Oscar de la Renta is the Wizard of Oz of New York fashion: so powerful and talented that you half expect another, regular guy to appear from behind the curtain and tell you it’s all an illusion. But in this case, the wizard is truly a wizard, and the magic he makes each season with his effortlessly feminine, sublime clothes is real. Here’s who came to see the show.
P.S. The S&M-esque black patent platform sandal you see repeatedly – on Carine Roitfeld, editor of French Vogue, and another show-goer – is by Marc Jacobs and seems to be the shoe of the moment.
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Fashion Week SS07: Diane Von Furstenberg
Few designers can claim their clothes are instantly recognizable. Diane Von Furstenberg never needed to emblazon her designs with logos, however, to establish her distinctive style. A crush of people, many of them women in DVF dresses, wrap and otherwise, wait for standing room at the Bryant Park show or breeze past, invitations in hand.
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Fashion Week SS07: Tracy Reese
I always assumed Tracy Reese was a WASP, because her colorful designs verge toward the extreme side of preppy. Turns out she’s a fabulous black designer, which should make us WASP-ish types gain a new appreciation for those wild prints and colors we love so well. They owe a lot more to African, Indian, Carribean, and black American culture than they do to Palm Beach.
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Fashion Week SS07: Balenciaga
Editors, customers, and investors arrive at one of the first fashion week shows, Balenciaga, held at Barneys New York, where the doormen are always stylish.
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Fifth Avenue, Midtown to Downtown
Going south from 57th Street to Washington Square, with a brief stop in H&M to check out the racks and racks of tomato red clothes.
It’s All in the Mix: St. Mark’s Place
No new trend goes untested on St. Mark’s Place. Many of the original 80’s punk looks that started here are creeping back in the form of outlandishly bright stripes, plaids, and prints mixed with black. Even the more conservatively dressed passers by added a hint of color – or a quirky item like an equestrian sweater (from J.Crew).
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Black Is the New Black: Greenwich Village
Bill Cunningham was right: Black is the new black. Fashion is swinging back to the somber minimalism of the mid-nineties, when Kate Moss first appeared on billboards across New York. Now that her image is ubiquitous again, so is her original spare style.
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