The brand expanded its array of custom fabrics, including a peach-colored floral jacquard with orange chevrons printed atop—presumably a reference to Peaks' namesake landmark—whipped into A-line skirts, a trench, and a tent dress.Tags:  Kaelen |  Kaelen Official Website: www.kaelennyc.com

Lisa Perry changed up her venue this season, forgoing her typical store presentation for a private residence with a heck of a view of the Queensboro Bridge.Tags:  Lisa Perry |  Lisa Perry Official Website: www.lisaperrystyle.com

Today, at Protagonist's fashion week debut, a cadre of some of the runways' coolest new faces—Magdalena Jasek, Kristina Petrosiute, Hedvig Palm—sulked through a spare, modernist set looking lovely and utterly unaffected.Tags:  Protagonist |  Protagonist Official Website: www.protagonist.com

The beautifully decrepit ballroom of the Hotel Wolcott was heavily perfumed with rose incense.Tags:  Tia Cibani |  Tia Cibani Official Website: www.tiacibani.com

This year marks Trina Turk's 20th in business. And while the early tenets of the line are still in place—retro-inspired prints and silhouettes, always with a Californian attitude—the customer's obsessions have changed. Tags:  Trina Turk |  Trina Turk Official Website: www.trinaturk.com

It's clear Alfaro has been grappling with this very notion since returning last year from a decade-long hiatus.Tags:  Victor Alfaro |  Victor Alfaro Official Website: www.victoralfaro.com

For Ji Oh, home is where the heart is this Fall. The designer zeroed in on the kind of pieces you'd want to put on for working from home—sans the sweats.Tags:  Ji Oh |  Ji Oh Official Website: www.jiohny.com

To Josie Natori, Istanbul is the cradle of civilization. Where East meets West, antiquity meets modernity. And, translated for her runway, where opulence meets everyday.Tags:  Josie Natori |  Josie Natori Official Website: www.natori.com

There may be no sight more mundanely depressing than gray, New York garbage snow. Great lumps of the stuff were piled up outside Tess Giberson's shop in Nolita, where the designer presented her new collection today.Tags:  Tess Giberson |  Tess Giberson Official Website: www.tessgiberson.com

Does a Margot Tenenbaum reference induce a collective sigh at this point? Has Wes Anderson's most regularly name-checked, oft-imitated heroine jumped the shark? It's up for debate, but Clare Waight Keller's interpretation of Margot and of the Anderson universe for See by Chloé's Fall outing didn't suffer for it.Tags:  See by Chloe |  See by Chloe Official Website: www.chloe.com

Trademark just turned one; if it has a reputation yet, it's for clothes with a surprising amount of polish for the price. Good value for money. It sounds like an idea a mother could get behind.Tags:  Trademark |  Trademark Official Website: www.trade-mark.com

Gary Graham's evident love of aesthetic archaeology is nothing if not compelling. Season after season he flouts the modish, instead plumbing libraries or museum archives.Tags:  Gary Graham |  Gary Graham Official Website: www.garygrahamnyc.com

Since Tina Lutz took the reins at TSE in 2012, the cashmere label has subscribed to a clean, sculptural aesthetic rooted in art and architecture. Sharp lines, classic silhouettes, and, of course, super-luxe fabrics have been the main focus, which is why Fall felt like a bit of a departure.Tags:  TSE |  TSE Official Website: www.tsecashmere.com

For 99 percent of the world, Juicy Couture means one thing: tracksuits.Tags:  Juicy Couture |  Juicy Couture Official Website: www.juicycouture.com

Tocca is scaling things back from here on out, but the Saint Lucia-founded label is still long on charm.Tags:  Tocca |  Tocca Official Website: www.tocca.com

Last season Tomas Maier designed a black velvet suit for men, and so many women who saw it asked for one in their size, he added it to his new Fall lineup.Tags:  Tomas Maier |  Tomas Maier Official Website: www.tomasmaier.com

That's also how Prabal Gurung considers the ICB girl.Tags:  Icb |  Icb Official Website: www.icb-brand.com

Nicole and Michael Colovos designed Pre-Fall in the midst of a New York heat wave.Tags:  Helmut Lang |  Helmut Lang Official Website: www.helmutlang.com

With three major exhibitions this year, it's no wonder that James Turrell's reverie-inducing LED fixtures have inspired multiple fashion labels, including, most recently, Escada.Tags:  Escada |  Escada Official Website: www.escada.com

Amid all of the organic textiles and artisanal elements (tassels, fringe, tapestry embroidery) that have been in play this season, Elie Tahari's clean, sporty lineup felt fresh and different.Tags:  Elie Tahari |  Elie Tahari Official Website: www.elietahari.com

Count on Dean and Dan Caten to come up with a theme and really run with it—even during in-between seasons, when most designers are focusing on pumping out commercial hits. Tags:  DSquared |  DSquared Official Website: www.dsquared2.com

Prices on summer clothes slashed by Memorial Day. Pre-Fall collections in stores by early June.Tags:  Donna Karan |  Donna Karan Official Website: www.donnakaran.com

Dennis Basso is in a celebratory mood. Fresh off the thirtieth anniversary of his label, the furrier has opened a four-story shop in a Madison Avenue town house.Tags:  Dennis Basso |  Dennis Basso Official Website: www.dennisbasso.com

It's been a mutually beneficial match since way back in 1957, when Neiman Marcus' Stanley Marcus, having embraced Coco Chanel's 1954 comeback collection even as the French rejected it, gave Chanel the store's Award for Distinguished Service in the field of fashion.Tags:  Chanel |  Chanel Official Website: www.chanel.com

Carolina Herrera is an avid gardener. It's a pursuit that's given her a healthy appreciation for bees, and she used her Pre-Fall collection to pay tribute.Tags:  Carolina Herrera |  Carolina Herrera Official Website: www.carolinaherrera.com

Bottega Veneta designer Tomas Maier's obsession is fabric.Tags:  Bottega Veneta |  Bottega Veneta Official Website: www.bottegaveneta.com

Hence the plaids and prep-school blazers, perfectly in line with the private-schoolgirl chic that's always been a Band calling card.Tags:  Band of Outsiders |  Band of Outsiders Official Website: www.bandofoutsiders.com

Mark Badgley and James Mischka say their clients like to buy formalwear for the fall parties before they leave for the summer holidays.Tags:  Badgley Mischka |  Badgley Mischka Official Website: www.badgleymischka.com

Our review will be posted shortly.Tags:  BCBG Max Azria |  BCBG Max Azria Official Website: www.bcbg.com

Phillip Lim turned 40 this year and threw himself a birthday party in the city where the party's never stopped: Berlin.Tags:  3.1 Phillip Lim |  3.1 Phillip Lim Official Website: www.31philliplim.com

Her approach to layering print this season was fairly fearless.Tags:  Zero Maria Cornejo |  Zero Maria Cornejo Official Website: www.zeromariacornejo.com

Our review will be posted shortly.Tags:  Yeohlee |  Yeohlee Official Website: www.yeohlee.com

Peg-Boards and martial arts may be two completely disparate ideas, but they both served designer Wayne Lee well for Pre-Fall.Tags:  Wayne |  Wayne Official Website: www.weeken.cc

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.Tags:  Tory Burch |  Tory Burch Official Website: www.toryburch.com

Olivier Theyskens' Theory is now Theory.Tags:  Theory |  Theory Official Website: www.theory.com

Thakoon Panichgul has been the go-to guy for a pretty party dress with a thoughtful twist for most of the past decade.Tags:  Thakoon |  Thakoon Official Website: www.thakoon.com

Our review will be posted shortly.Tags:  Temperley London |  Temperley London Official Website: www.temperleylondon.com

Zac Posen dialed the drama of his recent runway show way back for Pre-Fall.Tags:  Zac Posen |  Zac Posen Official Website: www.zacposen.com

The element of surprise in Alexander Wang's Pre-Fall collection was its emphasis on deconstruction, and his new T lineup echoed that same theme, with many pieces featuring raw edges, fringe details, and unfinished seams.Tags:  T by Alexander Wang |  T by Alexander Wang Official Website: www.alexanderwang.com

The Google car and Amazon's delivery drones were the topics of conversation pre-presentation at Proenza Schouler's Broadway offices today.Tags:  Proenza Schouler |  Proenza Schouler Official Website: www.proenzaschouler.com

Our review will be posted shortly.Tags:  Pringle of Scotland |  Pringle of Scotland Official Website: www.pringlescotland.com

Our review will be posted shortly.Tags:  Narciso Rodriguez |  Narciso Rodriguez Official Website: www.narcisorodriguez.com

Every season is a journey for Roberto Cavalli and his Just Cavalli line.Tags:  Just Cavalli |  Just Cavalli Official Website: www.robertocavalli.net

Jason Wu's love affair with the corset appears to be well and truly over.Tags:  Jason Wu |  Jason Wu Official Website: www.jasonwustudio.com

Diane von Furstenberg's wrap dress is about to turn 40.Tags:  Diane von Furstenberg |  Diane von Furstenberg Official Website: www.dvf.com

DKNY celebrated its 25th anniversary in September, and the brand is still in party mode.Tags:  DKNY |  DKNY Official Website: www.dkny.com

Why mess with a good thing? Joseph Altuzarra's Spring collection was one of the most talked about of New York fashion week.Tags:  Altuzarra |  Altuzarra Official Website: www.josephaltuzarra.com

But apropos of this collection, it's safe to say that Wang's stock will stay on the rise.Tags:  Alexander Wang |  Alexander Wang Official Website: www.alexanderwang.com

Albert Kriemler tends to look at art and architecture for inspiration.Tags:  Akris |  Akris Official Website: www.akris.ch

A proven favorite of Hollywood stylists and A-list starlets, Zuhair Murad's over-the-top eveningwear demands attention on red carpets.Tags:  Zuhair Murad |  Zuhair Murad Official Website: www.zuhairmurad.com.lb

It was announced last week that Charles James will be the subject of next year's Costume Institute show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.Tags:  Zac Posen |  Zac Posen Official Website: www.zacposen.com

The urban oasis also served as the jumping-off point for the latest Yeohlee lineup, filled with pretty, natural colors like powder pink, pewter gray, and verdant green.Tags:  Yeohlee |  Yeohlee Official Website: www.yeohlee.com

Yohji Yamamoto is sick of fast fashion.Tags:  Y-3 |  Y-3 Official Website: www.adidas.com

Gordon was just a babe in the nineties, but like many of his peers, he was inspired by that era—particularly the elegance of the supermodels and, even if he didn't mention her, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy.Tags:  Wes Gordon |  Wes Gordon Official Website: www.wesgordon.com

Being ahead of the curve can be both a blessing and a curse.Tags:  VPL |  VPL Official Website: www.weeken.cc

Back in the day, Shanghai was nicknamed the Paris of the East, and the city's PYTs wore a uniform of cheongsams and styled their hair in marcel waves.Tags:  Vivienne Tam |  Vivienne Tam Official Website: www.viviennetam.com

The midi-skirts she did last season were replaced by apron minis, the diagonal hem on top revealing a spray of pleats below.Tags:  Victoria Beckham |  Victoria Beckham Official Website: www.victoriabeckham.com

Meanwhile, the closing look—a slinky pique knit maxi skirt paired with a lace polo—felt fresh for evening.Tags:  Tracy Reese |  Tracy Reese Official Website: www.tracyreese.com

The speed and scale of Tory Burch's success suggest that she has hot-wired her business into the hopes and dreams of millions of women.Tags:  Tory Burch |  Tory Burch Official Website: www.toryburch.com

Sport and street are always two rich territories for the Weiland team to mine, and they did so this season with a keen, cool focus.Tags:  Timo Weiland |  Timo Weiland Official Website: www.timoweiland.com

The Row woman this season is an eclectic, exceedingly well-dressed nomad, picking up inspiration and pieces from her travels around the world.Tags:  The Row |  The Row Official Website: www.therow.com

The best of the lot has got to be the long pearl chains on his cross-body bags, made in collaboration with the Japanese jewelry company Tasaki, with whom Panichgul has a long-running partnership.Tags:  Thakoon |  Thakoon Official Website: www.thakoon.com

But as a whole this was a strong outing for Giberson, one marked by her ample intelligence, but not showing it off.Tags:  Tess Giberson |  Tess Giberson Official Website: www.tessgiberson.com

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.Tags:  T by Alexander Wang |  T by Alexander Wang Official Website: www.alexanderwang.com

Erin Beatty and Max Osterweis picked up a CFDA prize in June.Tags:  Suno |  Suno Official Website: www.sunony.com

And much of the success of this outing had to do with Alan's materials, especially his sheer-ish white tulles and soft, Japanese discharge print denim.Tags:  Steven Alan |  Steven Alan Official Website: www.stevenalan.com

Our review will be posted shortly.Tags:  See by Chloe |  See by Chloe Official Website: www.chloe.com

When Ruffian was born about a decade ago, designers Brian Wolk and Claude Morais were going after an upper-crusty lady-who-lunches type.Tags:  Ruffian |  Ruffian Official Website: www.ruffian.com

Some saw East L.A.'s chola girls in the plaid silk shirts over shiny bra tops and brocade skirts with studded suspenders.Tags:  Rodarte |  Rodarte Official Website: www.rodarte.net

Chai's bias-cut slipdresses looked fresh, and for that matter so did his super-wide-leg pants, which he showed with sporty fitted crop tops.Tags:  Richard Chai Love |  Richard Chai Love Official Website: www.rchai.com

After watching a film about the artist this summer, Rebecca Taylor was moved by those words.Tags:  Rebecca Taylor |  Rebecca Taylor Official Website: www.rebeccataylor.com

A pair of wings was the symbol that Rachel Roy chose as her logo when she launched her label nearly ten years ago, and she revisited it for Spring.Tags:  Rachel Roy |  Rachel Roy Official Website: www.rachelroy.com

As a concept for a fashion show, it doesn't exactly get the blood racing.Tags:  Proenza Schouler |  Proenza Schouler Official Website: www.proenzaschouler.com

But cue a George Harrison medley on the sound system and Karlie Kloss gliding onto the runway in a double-face gilet, cardigan, and pencil skirt, and the crowd perked right up.Tags:  Oscar De La Renta |  Oscar De La Renta Official Website: www.oscardelarenta.com

This was a very good Ohne Titel collection.Tags:  Ohne Titel |  Ohne Titel Official Website: www.ohnetitel.com

The first thing you noticed was the new proportion.Tags:  Narciso Rodriguez |  Narciso Rodriguez Official Website: www.narcisorodriguez.com

Watching Maison Martin Margiela's MM6 show was like taking a deep breath of icy air.Tags:  MM6 Maison Martin Margiela |  MM6 Maison Martin Margiela Official Website: www.maisonmartinmargiela.com

Michael Kors sent out a beautiful collection of real-world clothes today that had women in the crowd making mental shopping lists.Tags:  Michael Kors |  Michael Kors Official Website: www.michaelkors.com

At the Marc by Marc Jacobs show today, there were girls whose lank tresses were snared at the throat by knotted scarves.Tags:  Marc by Marc Jacobs |  Marc by Marc Jacobs Official Website: www.marcjacobs.com

Felipe Oliveira Baptista's new collection for Lacoste offered a master class in futurizing a venerable legacy.Tags:  Lacoste |  Lacoste Official Website: www.lacoste.com.cn

Earlier this year, punk suddenly became the new black, making Gwen Stefani's rebellious personal style relevant (not to mention commercially viable) all over again.Tags:  L.A.M.B. |  L.A.M.B. Official Website: l-a-m-b.com

Walker's baggy trousers conjured the attitude best: They looked smart, but also as cozy as pajamas.Tags:  Karen Walker |  Karen Walker Official Website: www.karenwalker.com

According to Serge Azria, Joie's Spring '14 collection was all about celebrating—and elevating—white.Tags:  joie |  joie Official Website: www.joie.cn

o not adjust your set: Jeremy Scott is here to interrupt your regularly scheduled NYFW programming.Tags:  Jeremy Scott |  Jeremy Scott Official Website: www.jeremyscott.com

The young women of the 1975 Australian cult flick Picnic at Hanging Rock were Jenny Packham's Spring muses.Tags:  Jenny Packham |  Jenny Packham Official Website: www.jennypackham.com

Towering mules, frayed denim, and woven raffia in a hippie stripe were some of the era's usual suspects, along with an afghan or two.Tags:  Jen Kao |  Jen Kao Official Website: www.kao.com

Fashion has been circling around the 1990s for a season or two now.Tags:  Jason Wu |  Jason Wu Official Website: www.jasonwustudio.com

Though the latest Crew womenswear collection was inspired, in part, by California surf culture, Mora got somewhere richer and stranger by strapping that reference to a theme of summer on the Venice Lido, circa the turn of the twentieth century.Tags:  J.Crew |  J.Crew Official Website: www.jcrew.com

It's still early days, but New York seems to be in the midst of a nineties moment this season.Tags:  Helmut Lang |  Helmut Lang Official Website: www.helmutlang.com

Gary Graham is known for uniquely romantic designs that, more often than not, successfully render his medieval and Victorian fashion influences modern.Tags:  Gary Graham |  Gary Graham Official Website: www.garygrahamnyc.com

After aiming for a more youthful audience in recent seasons, for Spring, Escada refocused on its core clientele of mature women who wouldn't be caught dead in a crop top.Tags:  Escada |  Escada Official Website: www.escada.com

Ultimately, their contemporary E&J customer wants to dress like the stylish designers themselves, and the new collection provided plenty of ways to do so.Tags:  Elizabeth and James |  Elizabeth and James Official Website: www.elizabethandjames.us

That's what Danielle Sherman was given after being appointed creative director at Edun, the LVMH-backed, ethically sourced collection that was founded in 2005 by U2's Bono and his wife Ali Hewson.Tags:  Edun |  Edun Official Website: www.edun.com

Douglas Hannant traveled to Gran Canaria, one of the Canary Islands, last year and was amazed by the landscape.Tags:  Douglas Hannant |  Douglas Hannant Official Website: www.weeken.com

There was a celebratory energy in the air at the DKNY Spring runway show, which officially marked the label's 25th anniversary, a.k.a. #DKNY25.Tags:  DKNY |  DKNY Official Website: www.dkny.com

No sophomore slump for Andreas Melbostad at Diesel Black Gold today.Tags:  Diesel Black Gold |  Diesel Black Gold Official Website: www.diesel.com

Diane von Furstenberg called her show today Oasis.Tags:  Diane von Furstenberg |  Diane von Furstenberg Official Website: www.dvf.com

We bring it up in the context of Derek Lam because, last season and today, clothes you want have been what he's put on the runway.Tags:  Derek Lam |  Derek Lam Official Website: www.dereklam.com

The Carolina Herrera woman has always been a classy, cosmopolitan character.Tags:  Carolina Herrera |  Carolina Herrera Official Website: www.carolinaherrera.com

A silhouette inspired by Body Glove's classic one-piece maillot was the style that unified today's Calla presentation at the always crowded Milk Studios.Tags:  Calla |  Calla Official Website: www.calla.fr

In the second half of the lineup, floaty floral maxi numbers and an asymmetric black, beaded tulle gown felt more familiar for BCBG, but they didn't have the freshness as those opening shirtdresses.Tags:  BCBG Max Azria |  BCBG Max Azria Official Website: www.bcbg.com

The collection started with a set of navy and white looks for day, and it starred the most perfect summer tweed: a navy taffeta threaded with a white cotton slub, which was made into several separates, including a boxy cropped jacket and a formfitting trumpet skirt.Tags:  Badgley Mischka |  Badgley Mischka Official Website: www.badgleymischka.com

Alexander Wang was a teenager the first time logo mania came around in the nineties.Tags:  Alexander Wang |  Alexander Wang Official Website: www.alexanderwang.com

A little of this, a little of that. A good cook has the confidence to improvise. And this season, Band of Outsiders honcho Scott Sternberg threw a myriad of flavors into his pot.Tags:  Band of Outsiders |  Band of Outsiders Official Website: www.bandofoutsiders.com

These verging-on-kitsch pieces were balanced with Lee's utilitarian basics.Tags:  Wayne |  Wayne Official Website: www.weeken.cc

Francisco Costa is celebrating his tenth anniversary at the helm of Calvin Klein this season.Tags:  Calvin Klein |  Calvin Klein Official Website: www.calvinklein.com

There was a definite eclecticism about the new collection, which was underscored by the custom tattoos Scott Campbell painted on the models for the occasionTags:  Marchesa |  Marchesa Official Website: www.marchesa.com

When Anna Sui saw them in the Tate's Pre-Raphaelite retrospective at the beginning of this year, she knew she'd found her inspiration for Spring 2014Tags:  Anna Sui |  Anna Sui Official Website: www.annasui.com

Our review will be posted shortly. See the complete collection by clicking the image at left.Tags:  CO |  CO Official Website: www.france-coco.com

Ralph Lauren is feeling mod for Spring.Tags:  Ralph Lauren |  Ralph Lauren Official Website: www.ralphlauren.com

Our review will be posted shortly. See the complete collection by clicking the image at left.Tags:  Marc Jacobs |  Marc Jacobs Official Website: www.marcjacobs.com

When you RSVP to Betsey Johnson, you're expecting theatricsTags:  Betsey Johnson |  Betsey Johnson Official Website: www.betseyjohnson.com

A giant cruise ship sailed into the slot behind Pier 92's windows today and served as the backdrop for Catherine Malandrino's presentation.Tags:  Catherine Malandrino |  Catherine Malandrino Official Website: www.catherinemalandrino.com

Nearly every look in the collection will give Smith's woman an hourglass figure, regardless of whether or not she was born with one.Tags:  Milly |  Milly Official Website: www.millyny.com

Dennis Basso's dress business is picking up. Tags:  Dennis Basso |  Dennis Basso Official Website: www.dennisbasso.com

Naeem Khan closed his show with a sneak peek at his upcoming bridal line, launching in October. There will be lace.Tags:  Naeem Khan |  Naeem Khan Official Website: www.naeemkhan.com

Our review will be posted shortly. See the complete collection by clicking the image at left. Tags:  Icb |  Icb Official Website: www.icb-brand.com

Donna Karan came out for her bow looking like she was ready to hail a cab. Trenchcoat. Oversize leather toteTags:  Donna Karan |  Donna Karan Official Website: www.donnakaran.com

It's funny that Alice + Olivia designer Stacey Bendet started the brand in 2002 based on a pair of great-fitting pants, because these days the line is best known for girly cocktail dresses.Tags:  Alice Olivia |  Alice Olivia Official Website: www.aliceandolivia.com

Yeohlee Teng's label is inspiring in its efficiency.Tags:  Yeohlee |  Yeohlee Official Website: www.yeohlee.com

There were tourists lined up on the steps of the Plaza tonight.Tags:  Zac Posen |  Zac Posen Official Website: www.zacposen.com

Boy and Girl have parted ways. This season, Band of Outsiders designer Scott Sternberg decided to showcase his Boy by Band of Outsiders collection on its own, rather than in the omnibus format of previous shows.Tags:  Band of Outsiders |  Band of Outsiders Official Website: www.bandofoutsiders.com

There are few designers who weave autobiography into their collections as effectively as Anna Sui.Tags:  Anna Sui |  Anna Sui Official Website: www.annasui.com

Shortly before the start of the 3.1 Phillip Lim show today, a man came out and splashed some kind of fluid around the catwalk.Tags:  3.1 Phillip Lim |  3.1 Phillip Lim Official Website: www.31philliplim.com

Victoria Beckham has been spending a lot of time with her customers, and trunk shows on three different continents this summer (Asia, North America, and Europe, in case you were wondering) taught her something.Tags:  Victoria Beckham |  Victoria Beckham Official Website: www.victoriabeckham.com

It may be that Haynes does well with her prints because the weirder, creepier, or more jarring they are, the more they cut the treacle of her girly looks.Tags:  Calla |  Calla Official Website: www.calla.fr

Wang is just about as It as you can get in New York fashion at the moment, and he delivered on his reputation, sending out a focused Spring collection that put his strong, singular vision on display.Tags:  Alexander Wang |  Alexander Wang Official Website: www.alexanderwang.com

The urban influence was the result of a summer spent in the city, albeit one in which Taylor dreamed of escaping to Hawaii.Tags:  Rebecca Taylor |  Rebecca Taylor Official Website: www.rebeccataylor.com

They say that the best way to treat a fear of heights is to go bungee jumping. Face your demons and all that.Tags:  VPL |  VPL Official Website: www.weeken.cc

A tracksuit in a blue and red etched floral had the blouson proportions of Issey Miyake; long, nearly knee-grazing tunics worn over full-leg pants were also striking.Tags:  Suno |  Suno Official Website: www.sunony.com

The first point of difference was the color: surfer-bright slashes of orange or sea blue that appeared on a color-blocked tank dress or a reversible leather jacketTags:  Helmut Lang |  Helmut Lang Official Website: www.helmutlang.com

Take the low-slung black leather trousers on Aymeline, finished with racing stripes, or the seriously cool moto vests and jackets made out of luxe Italian silk satin.Tags:  Rag&Bone |  Rag&Bone Official Website: www.rag-bone.com

The finale look—a camouflage denim utility jacket with bungee-cord trim and matching jeans—was ultimately the most covetable here.Tags:  Jen Kao |  Jen Kao Official Website: www.kao.com

Minkoff also took a risk with an open-back, utility-style jumpsuit and a pair of snakeskin overalls, but managed to pull them both off as only a true Minkette can. Tags:  Rebecca Minkoff |  Rebecca Minkoff Official Website: www.rebeccaminkoff.com

Another time, a tanned and taut midriff was on full display between a lace bandeau top and kicky leather skirt.Tags:  Jason Wu |  Jason Wu Official Website: www.jasonwustudio.com

The mismatched velvet couches, well-trod oriental carpets, and antique chandeliers at the Jane Hotel provided the backdrop for today Behnaz Sarafpour presentation.Tags:  Behnaz Sarafpour |  Behnaz Sarafpour Official Website: www.behnazsarafpour.com

There was the glassy lightness of sheer nylon, deployed effectively throughout both his menswear and his Richard Chai Love womenswear collections.Tags:  Richard Chai Love |  Richard Chai Love Official Website: www.rchai.com

Leather ones overlaid most of the crepe dresses and gowns she and her husband sent out in their new collection, which traded the pop colors of last season for a more muted palette of talc, coral, black, white, and cream.Tags:  BCBG Max Azria |  BCBG Max Azria Official Website: www.bcbg.com

Steven Alan has been presenting at New York Fashion Week for the past four seasons, so it was surprising when his name was missing from the official fashion calendar.Tags:  Steven Alan |  Steven Alan Official Website: www.stevenalan.com

Gary Graham is a font of esoteric knowledge. He designs for women who appreciate his cerebral reference points, or maybe just have a taste for romantic clothes with antique appeal.Tags:  Gary Graham |  Gary Graham Official Website: www.garygrahamnyc.com

The London Olympics, which have turned many usually oblivious heads toward the world of sport, should be a boon for Victoria Bartlett.Tags:  VPL |  VPL Official Website: www.weeken.cc

Vivienne Tam has mastered the art of contrast. With her new Resort collection, she adapted circular tribal graphics of the mandala and geometric Buddhist symbols to her urban aesthetic.Tags:  Vivienne Tam |  Vivienne Tam Official Website: www.viviennetam.com

Modern tailoring met the seventies in Alberta Ferretti's new Resort collection, where a tie-dyed safari-inspired shirtdress, a violet topcoat embellished with Venetian Murrine glass stones, and a kaleidoscope-print silk maxi dress with a neon crocheted bodice were the key looks.Tags:  Alberta Ferretti |  Alberta Ferretti Official Website: www.albertaferretti.com

While color remains a constant, there were pretty, antique lace pieces in white too, the sort of item that explains why Sui has a sizable bridal business.Tags:  Anna Sui |  Anna Sui Official Website: www.annasui.com

Based on her eclectic collections and the daring, vampy outfit she wore to last week's CFDA Awards, you wouldn't necessarily take Jen Kao for an avid sports fan.Tags:  Jen Kao |  Jen Kao Official Website: www.kao.com

What do Legos and Leopold Stolba, the Vienna Secessionist artist, have in common? Fendi, of course.Tags:  Fendi |  Fendi Official Website: www.fendi.com

When it comes to occasion dressing, Stacey Bendet sure knows how to go all-out.Tags:  Alice Olivia |  Alice Olivia Official Website: www.aliceandolivia.com

Akris Resort 2013 Collection Runway ReviewTags:  Akris |  Akris Official Website: www.akris.ch

Elbaz is without a doubt one of the most woman-friendly designers around today.Tags:  Lanvin |  Lanvin Official Website: www.lanvin.com

Having cycled through all manner of subcultures—tribal warriors for Fall, Ibiza ravers before thatTags:  Missoni |  Missoni Official Website: www.missoni.com

The backdrop was pure Times Square. Bright, shifting blocks of color on the walls spelled out big, graphic New York-centric puns: All Hail the Cab.Tags:  DKNY |  DKNY Official Website: www.dkny.com

It pretty much goes without saying that Threeasfour like to do things their own way.Tags:  ThreeAsFour |  ThreeAsFour Official Website: www.threeasfour.com

The presentations that Scott Sternberg has staged for Band of Outsiders are legendary by now—there was the time he created an actual beach, replete with water and sandTags:  Band of Outsiders |  Band of Outsiders Official Website: www.bandofoutsiders.com

Evening looks made up the entirety of Carlos Miele's Resort collection, but that didn't mean this was totally business as usual from the festive-minded Brazilian designer.Tags:  Carlos Miele |  Carlos Miele Official Website: www.carlosmiele.com.br

Ruffian A lot has changed in the 100-plus years since Edward VII popularized the tail-less jacket. Yves Saint Laurent famously put a woman in a tux—he called it Le Smoking—way back in 1966.Tags:  Ruffian |  Ruffian Official Website: www.ruffian.com

Backstage, Zac Posen was clear about why he decided to give his lower-priced line its runway debut. Tags:  Z Spoke by Zac Posen |  Z Spoke by Zac Posen Official Website: www.weeken.cc

As a model wearing a tribal-embroidered trapeze dress sashayed into Marchesa's showroom, Georgina Chapman laughed, Tags:  Marchesa |  Marchesa Official Website: www.marchesa.com

Wild zebras are out and dressage horses are in.Tags:  Willow |  Willow Official Website: www.willowltd.com

For his second outing at Bill Blass, Jeffrey Monteiro gave an intimate presentation at the Monkey Bar. Guests huddled in leather booths, while waiters passed out flutes of bubbly and mini lobster rolls.Tags:  Bill Blass |  Bill Blass Official Website: www.billblass.com

The Séeberger brothers—street-style photographers, albeit of the early twentieth century, rather than the early twenty-first—gave Jason Wu his jumping-off point for the season. Tags:  Jason Wu |  Jason Wu Official Website: www.jasonwustudio.com

You can tell it's a Naeem Khan show by the glamorous detritus—ostrich feathers, sequins, jet-black beads—that decorates the catwalk by the finale.Tags:  Naeem Khan |  Naeem Khan Official Website: www.naeemkhan.com

You didn't need to know that Kate and Laura Mulleavy had been watching the Terrence Malick movie Days of Heaven to ascertain that the sisters had taken the American Plains as their latest inspiration.Tags:  Rodarte |  Rodarte Official Website: www.rodarte.net

And so it opened with two versions of the safari jacket, overlaid with geometric lace and some particularly Fetherstonian little bows. Tags:  Erin Fetherston |  Erin Fetherston Official Website: erinfetherston.com

We lost count somewhere around 90 when we tried to tally the photographers in the pit at Jason Wu's Chelsea show today. Tags:  Jason Wu |  Jason Wu Official Website: www.jasonwustudio.com

There aren't many designers willing to admit to being inspired by old ladies, but Max Osterweis and Erin Beatty went there for Fall.Tags:  Suno |  Suno Official Website: www.sunony.com

Over the past few seasons, G-Star has scaled back its runway shows considerably. Gone are the VIP Champagne service, moving runways, and plethora of random celebrities. Wait—scratch that last bit. Tags:  G-STAR |  G-STAR Official Website: www.g-star.nl

Last season, for his second Halston collection, Marios Schwab did a 180, seeming to jettison his initial creative vision for something that suggested diligent study of the label's archives.Tags:  Halston |  Halston Official Website: www.halston.com

Tory Burch summed up her Fall collection as Tags:  Tory Burch |  Tory Burch Official Website: www.toryburch.com

Considering they're English girls with highly romantic sensibilities, it's surprising that Marchesa's Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig have never considered a real moment of Victoriana until today.Tags:  Marchesa |  Marchesa Official Website: www.marchesa.com

Stripped of all the ornamentation, one could imagine almost any aspiring gossip girl and her mother wearing a graphic navy shift with a peekaboo gold inverted pleat.Tags:  Milly |  Milly Official Website: www.millyny.com

Bodkin designer Eviana Hartman showed a polished, wearable collection at her first-ever fashion week presentation this evening. Tags:  Bodkin |  Bodkin Official Website: www.bodkin.us

Sonia Yoon's impending nuptials—she's getting married in May—got her and design partner Benjamin Channing Clyburn feeling nostalgic about their youth.Tags:  Bensoni |  Bensoni Official Website: www.bensoni.com

In her time, Madeleine Vionnet was such an arch-modernist that her innovations haunt fashion to this very day, which means Rodolfo Paglialunga faces a peculiar challenge in making Vionnet more contemporary.Tags:  Vionnet |  Vionnet Official Website: www.vionnet.com

The most powerful power woman of the moment (Michelle Obama, duh) should add it to the top of her shopping list.Tags:  Akris |  Akris Official Website: www.akris.ch

Donna Karan Spring 2010 Ready-to-Wear Collection. Donna Karan had a hit on her hands for Fall.Tags:  Donna Karan |  Donna Karan Official Website: www.donnakaran.com

The designers certainly justified their recent CFDA Accessory award with this collection.Tags:  Proenza Schouler |  Proenza Schouler Official Website: www.proenzaschouler.com

Lily Donaldson in linen-toned tulle patterned in gold beads, her head wreathed in gold leaves and wheat sheaves. No lovelier way for the designer to close the book on her first two decades in business.Tags:  Anna Sui |  Anna Sui Official Website: www.annasui.com

Today was Sophie Théallet's first show since winning the big CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund purse. Ever the prudent design veteran, she explained a week ago in her Brooklyn studio, Tags:  Sophie Theallet |  Sophie Theallet Official Website: www.sophietheallet.com

The jumping-off point for Sam Shipley and Jeff Halmos' new collection was the mash-up of classic and modern. In particular, Shipley cited Peter Saville's famous cover for New Order's Power, Corruption & Lies. The stiff Fantin-Latour still life overlaid with Saville's self-created, color-coded bars? It could be juxtaposition's finest moment.Tags:  Shipley Halmos |  Shipley Halmos Official Website: www.shipley-halmos.com

First things first: The insanely cute printed wedges and flats designed by Suno in conjunction with Loeffler Randall will indeed be available for purchase come spring.Tags:  Suno |  Suno Official Website: www.sunony.com

Steven Alan is in a voyaging mood. Tags:  Steven Alan |  Steven Alan Official Website: www.stevenalan.com

The idea, the designer said, was to create the sense of beachy calm that being near the ocean instills. Tags:  Stephen Burrows |  Stephen Burrows Official Website: www.stephenburrows.com

If you were looking for a sign of just how big a trend minimalism is, you could find it at the Sachin + Babi for Ankasa presentation on the first day of New York fashion week.Tags:  Sachin Babi |  Sachin Babi Official Website: www.sachinandbabi.com

After putting her signature line on hold in 2005 to take a position at TSE, where she remained until 2008, Tess Giberson is back on the fashion calendar. Tags:  Tess Giberson |  Tess Giberson Official Website: www.tessgiberson.com

Timo Weiland and his partner in design, Alan Eckstein, called their new collection A Wharf on the Baltic. If there's a competition for the season's most awkward title, I think we've found a winner.Tags:  Timo Weiland |  Timo Weiland Official Website: www.timoweiland.com

Some pieces were lingerielike, dressed in prints based on Theyskens' own paintings; and there was a wide array of denim, from high-waisted flares to cornflower blue cropped jeans specially treated to look permanently wrinkled.Tags:  Theyskens' Theory |  Theyskens' Theory Official Website: www.weeken.cc

It's not every day that designers brand-new to the runway score front-row coups like Chloë Sevigny and Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan. But then, The Row's Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen aren't your everyday designers. Tags:  The Row |  The Row Official Website: www.therow.com

The title of Joaquín Trías' show was Seized Movement, and what that meant for the Madrid-based designer was an exploration of air's effect on the clothes we wear.Tags:  Trias |  Trias Official Website: www.weeken.cc

These designers have always preferred elegance to edge, but this season, the results looked more effortless, without the superfluous extras that have proven a bit too distracting in the past.Tags:  Vena Cava |  Vena Cava Official Website: www.venacavadesign.co.uk

The look was sporty and slicked to the body, the kind of thing that no-fuss urban girls will want. An inverted petal shape informed the silhouette of dresses and, quite beautifully, the extra-long split-front skirt that closed the show.Tags:  Wayne |  Wayne Official Website: www.weeken.cc

Only one dress out of the 26 Victoria Beckham showed today featured a corset. That's groundbreaking news for a glamour puss who looks so pulled together in paparazzi snapshots you'd swear she wears a waist cincher to the gym. Tags:  Victoria Beckham |  Victoria Beckham Official Website: www.victoriabeckham.com

The Central Saint Martins grad spent summers in the studios of Tom Ford and Oscar de la Renta, and it shows in his clothes.Tags:  Wes Gordon |  Wes Gordon Official Website: www.wesgordon.com

Florence Welch of Florence + the Machine might have a bone to pick with Australian up-and-comer Kit Willow.Tags:  Willow |  Willow Official Website: www.willowltd.com

Pieces like a color-blocked crepe dress with an exposed back or an ankle-length white gown with a corded rope detail suggest it's the right one.Tags:  Yigal Azrouel |  Yigal Azrouel Official Website: www.yigal-azrouel.com

Backstage, Zac Posen was clear about why he decided to give his lower-priced line its runway debut.Tags:  Z Spoke by Zac Posen |  Z Spoke by Zac Posen Official Website: www.weeken.cc

For Spring, Maria Cornejo had ideas about cultural displacement, heritage, and the search for identity.Tags:  Zero Maria Cornejo |  Zero Maria Cornejo Official Website: www.zeromariacornejo.com

A pair of striking black swans decorated the hem of a red velvet column gown, and sweet running bunnies and toadstools dotted georgette dresses and intarsia sweaters.Tags:  Zac Posen |  Zac Posen Official Website: www.zacposen.com

A pair of expertly tailored shorts trimmed with a knit waistband, for example, was paired with a slouchy silk pocket tee.Tags:  Yigal Azrouel |  Yigal Azrouel Official Website: www.yigal-azrouel.com

These were more than basics, but not so much so that they would scare those customers who still associate TSE with a great cashmere sweater.Tags:  Betsey Johnson |  Betsey Johnson Official Website: www.betseyjohnson.com

t was business as usual at Ruffian, and by that we mean Brian Wolk and Claude Morais presented clothes designed for the pursuit of pleasureTags:  Ruffian |  Ruffian Official Website: www.ruffian.com

A standout gown in various rosy sandstone hues had a fully structured bustier from which hung a fluid silk skirt.Tags:  Jen Kao |  Jen Kao Official Website: www.kao.com

Dan and Dean Caten left the sexed-up Helmut Newton girls they imagined for Fall on the runwayTags:  DSquared |  DSquared Official Website: www.dsquared2.com

while some pieces' sole moment of drama came from shots of eyelet tulle that exposed the wearer's back. These were wear-forever looks whose clean-lined charm, like Miss Golightly's, won't date anytime soon.Tags:  Douglas Hannant |  Douglas Hannant Official Website: www.weeken.com

As his starting point for Resort, Chris Benz was thinking of the midcentury ceramist Sascha Brastoff, whose Los Angeles milieu included another of the collection's muses, Carmen Miranda.Tags:  Chris Benz |  Chris Benz Official Website: www.chris-benz.com

Evening looks made up the entirety of Carlos Miele's Resort collection, but that didn't mean this was totally business as usual from the festive-minded Brazilian designer.Tags:  Carlos Miele |  Carlos Miele Official Website: www.carlosmiele.com.br

Jeffrey Monteiro must have felt daunted, as the fifth design director to take the reins at Bill Blass since its namesake designer retired in 1999.Tags:  Bill Blass |  Bill Blass Official Website: www.billblass.com

Last season, Barbara Tfank created a few of her own prints for the first time; Fall saw her plunging headlong into graphic-design mode.Tags:  Barbara Tfank |  Barbara Tfank Official Website: www.weeken.cc

Practicing his signature brand of arty minimalism, Francisco Costa replaced the sharp angles and dark colors of his Fall lineup with soft, organic shapes and light-reflecting neutrals.Tags:  Calvin Klein |  Calvin Klein Official Website: www.calvinklein.com

There's a reason Victoria Bartlett's Spring theme, anatomy, felt so right.Tags:  VPL |  VPL Official Website: www.weeken.cc

If Adam Lippes' 2010 plans are anything to go by, we can call an end to the recession. The designer has a swanky new showroomTags:  Adam |  Adam Official Website: www.shopadam.com

Other big-name designers may be dialing down their Resort presentations, but not Oscar de la Renta.Tags:  Oscar De La Renta |  Oscar De La Renta Official Website: www.oscardelarenta.com

How does Yigal Azrouël update his signature slouchy-cool silhouettes and washed fabrics in the context of fashion's current minimalism obsession?Tags:  Yigal Azrouel |  Yigal Azrouel Official Website: www.yigal-azrouel.com

Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren played with opposites for Resort, focusing especially on the masculine/feminine polarity.Tags:  Viktor&Rolf |  Viktor&Rolf Official Website: www.trend-apparel.com

Would you expect a Roberto Cavalli Resort collection to be anything but colorful?Tags:  Roberto Cavalli |  Roberto Cavalli Official Website: www.robertocavalli.com

he broad-shouldered power babe has been stomping around a lot of runways this week, but Richard Chai has been honing his tough-luxe vision of this Mighty Aphrodite for a year now.Tags:  Richard Chai Love |  Richard Chai Love Official Website: www.rchai.com

Picture a garden in full bloom—Roberto Cavalli did for his Just Cavalli pre-fall collection.Tags:  Just Cavalli |  Just Cavalli Official Website: www.robertocavalli.net

Are there now two photographers in the Maria Cornejo/Mark Borthwick household?Tags:  Zero Maria Cornejo |  Zero Maria Cornejo Official Website: www.zeromariacornejo.com

Tracy Reese knows her way around a flattering, full-skirted frock, but for Resort, the designer pushed some different silhouettes.Tags:  Tracy Reese |  Tracy Reese Official Website: www.tracyreese.com

In her time, Madeleine Vionnet was such an arch-modernist that her innovations haunt fashion to this very day, which means Rodolfo Paglialunga faces a peculiar challenge in making Vionnet more contemporary.Tags:  Vionnet |  Vionnet Official Website: www.vionnet.com

With the phone ringing off the hook with requests for his sexy little party dresses, Peter Dundas made sure to include plenty of them in his latest collection for Pucci.Tags:  Emilio Pucci |  Emilio Pucci Official Website: www.emiliopucci.com

The collection's sheared mink coats were a clever marriage of subtlety and luxury.Tags:  Akris |  Akris Official Website: www.akris.ch

Leave it to Marc Jacobs to deliver a neon-hued, big-shouldered, crimpy-haired eighties antidote to the gloom and doom of 2009Tags:  Marc Jacobs |  Marc Jacobs Official Website: www.marcjacobs.com

As ever at Marc Jacobs, the references and ideas came fast and furious.Tags:  Marc Jacobs |  Marc Jacobs Official Website: www.marcjacobs.com

The birth of a nephew had Brian Reyes thinking about the old world and the new, and the voyage between.Tags:  Brian Reyes |  Brian Reyes Official Website: www.brianreyes.com

David Neville and Marcus Wainwright decided to skip the storytelling and keep things real for ResortTags:  Rag&Bone |  Rag&Bone Official Website: www.rag-bone.com

The versatile designs on offer should appeal to fans who still reminisce about her famous low-slung pants, and the newly initiated alike.Tags:  Daryl K |  Daryl K Official Website: www.darylk.com

After a Fall collection for Chloé that erred perhaps too much on the side of ladylike, Hannah MacGibbon has produced a more youthful lineup this time around.Tags:  Chloe |  Chloe Official Website: www.chloe.com

Add Rebecca Taylor to the growing list of designers drawing inspiration from seventies-era Bianca Jagger this season.Tags:  Rebecca Taylor |  Rebecca Taylor Official Website: www.rebeccataylor.com

Alice + Olivia's Stacey Bendet marches to the beat of her own drum, so when much of the fashion world is grooving to the seventiesTags:  Alice Olivia |  Alice Olivia Official Website: www.aliceandolivia.com

Ennio Capasa poured on the sex appeal at his last two runway shows, inching hems way, way up the legs and cutting leather second-skin-tight. For ResortTags:  Costume National |  Costume National Official Website: www.costumenational.com

Worked into daywear pieces like a laced safari top, paper bag-waisted shorts, and a bow-trimmed miniskirt, they looked cool instead of trad and exuded the Tags:  Tory Burch |  Tory Burch Official Website: www.toryburch.com

Giorgio Armani continued the exploration of eighties style that he began in earnest with his Fall collection, except this time around he did it with bright colors and bold geometric prints instead of his accustomed shades of grayTags:  Armani |  Armani Official Website: www.giorgioamarni.com

Practicing his signature brand of arty minimalism, Francisco Costa replaced the sharp angles and dark colors of his Fall lineup with soft, organic shapes and light-reflecting neutrals.Tags:  Calvin Klein |  Calvin Klein Official Website: www.calvinklein.com

Milly's Michelle Smith was thinking of a honeymoon in Venice for Resort: the watercolor Venetian skyline print that anchors the collection (twist her arm and she'll reveal it's actually Florence)Tags:  Milly |  Milly Official Website: www.millyny.com