The Blumarine world has been in transition of late. Once, it was all about frills, girliness, and a sensual yet traditional take on romanticism. Now, it's sharp and sexy.

Bottega Veneta designer Tomas Maier's obsession is fabric.

Tory Burch's icons are often drawn from the arts: Celluloid swans like Romy Schneider, muse of her Spring collection, or Adele Bloch-Bauer, gilded angel of Gustav Klimt, who haunted her line last Fall.

While heritage isn't a term that really applies to a label less than five years old, it was the buzzword at the T by Alexander Wang showroom yesterday, which was bustling with retailers placing their Spring orders.

Some saw East L.A.'s chola girls in the plaid silk shirts over shiny bra tops and brocade skirts with studded suspenders.

For a movie in which the stars spend so much time out of clothes, Zabriskie Point sure has inspired a lot of designers.

o not adjust your set: Jeremy Scott is here to interrupt your regularly scheduled NYFW programming.

A season ago, Frida Giannini was pregnant and sending nipped-waist skirt suits and second-skin python dresses down the Gucci runway.

Its usual destiny as a sturdy fabric need not preclude it from being made over into a more delicate, decadent, or decorated state of being.

Spring's starting point was an image of a Victorian-era fencing dress (

The designer named his collection Genesis Redux, describing the clothes as beautiful new creatures.

As a still up-and-coming French designer struggling to build her ready-to-wear business, Anne Valérie Hash is unpretentious enough to know she hasn't the wherewithal to be a Paris couturier.

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