Back-to-back-to-back with Tory Burch, J.Crew, Vera Wang, Oscar de la Renta, and more! | Hollywood yohana
From the prim to awesomely improper, yesterday at New York fashion week was another dizzying day of back-to-back-to-back shows. Let’s drill it down:
The liner notes at Tory Burch’s show yesterday referenced a proper girl who’s come undone by falling in love with the wrong sort of guy. Well, it might have been wrong for the girl, but on the runway it was very, very right. Self confessed, I’ve never prayed to the Burch alter, but the designer’s beautiful Fall collection might just have me changing my tune. Featuring pencil skirts, lacey dresses in wine, emerald, navy, and dusty rose, and some of the loveliest floral appliques and pearl details on done-up cardigans, the collection entered Carey Mulligan territory.
After a bit of J.Crew action and one hilarious stalking sesh at Starbucks (“I’ll have a Venti decaf water, please!”), it was off to Vera Wang, where Viola Davis, Maria Sharapova, and the face of Wang’s fragrance, Leighton Meester, took in 39 sheer, slashed red-carpet options. (This for Davis’s Oscar acceptance speech?)
Then, to the eerily dark Pier 57 for Diesel Black Gold’s collection. A tightly edited showing of the brand’s signature rocker aesthetic had motor jackets once again reinvented in distressed oxblood, leather boxing shorts done in leopard-print pony, and button-downs worn under loose shift skirts. So perfectly crafted to say “I don’t give a…”
And what better way to offset the rebel than with the show-stopping glam girls that showed up en masse at Naeem Khan. Known so well for his over-the-top (in the best way) glitziness, the India native took to Haight-Ashbury with a modern blend of the caftan, the red-carpet stunner, and the wrap dress all at once. The result? Something we’re sure to see on February 26.
Then, for another Marc outing at the Lexington (not Park, in case you get lost like us). Dorky to perfection, it won’t be a season for me unless I’ve got at least one item in my closet.
Next, I was off to Milk—my final show at the epicentre of cool—for former CFDA award winner Sophie Theallet. An offbeat sort of of prettiness unfolded through the tightly woven, ‘70s-hued (think maroon and fuchsia intarsia sweaters, wool teal wraps) collection.
Prettiness of a different sort (well, the really high-society sort) was on the agenda at Oscar de la Renta as well, way up 12 floors above the bustle of 42nd Street. Pearls dripped from skirt hems, jewels were blown up and printed on shirt dresses, and the frothiest fantasy prom dresses walked down the runway in a collection that’d suit many a 5th Avenue princess just swell.
And finally, to close the night with Narsciso Rodriguez‘s silk-slashed ode to autumnal hues. Though it felt a bit like going through the motions, the designer did turn out quite a few beautiful sculpted coats.
Wait, one last stop! In the basement… of the Hotel Americano, for Business of Fashion’s 5th anniversary party. With founder Imran Amed decked in suspenders and birthday buttons, fashion’s finest from Tory Burch to Fern Mallis to Toronto’s own Shinan Govani showed up to toast a glass.
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