VICTORIA BECKHAM SPRING 2011 RTW

Lindsey Wixson

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.

Alina Baikova

But as Beckham said while narrating the collection, her own style has loosened up quite a bit, and it showed in the clothes. She opened with a draped parachute silk dress in ultraviolet knotted at the torso, and included a few more variations of the theme, including a striking gown in black with jet embroidery at the shoulder. Kudos for expanding the range, though the irony is a weightless fabric like parachute silk hides nothing; as easy as the new silhouettes are, they require a flawless body.

Amanda Laine

Hollywood is full of those, of course, but Beckham's fans—even those with last names like Diaz, Lopez, and Moore—will probably gravitate toward the curving seams of the hourglass dresses she's best known for. Hard not to like the way they reliably hold everything in place. Among the best examples today: a shoulder-baring iridescent jacquard with ribbon straps and a Cadillac pink double crepe with an asymmetric neckline and a contrasting zipper in back.

Juana Berga

At the designer's request, Brian Atwood made the show's rose gold platform pumps to match her new Rolex. As for the new Victoria Beckham bags, they featured luxe materials and classically ladylike shapes, as befits a lady who knows her way around a Birkin.

Alina Baikova

Amanda Laine

TANYA KOZHEMYAKINA

ESME CARPENTER

Kristy Kaurova

Lindsey Wixson

Imogen Morris Clarke

Juana Berga

ESME CARPENTER

TANYA KOZHEMYAKINA

Alina Baikova

Amanda Laine

Kristy Kaurova

Lindsey Wixson

Imogen Morris Clarke

ESME CARPENTER

TANYA KOZHEMYAKINA

Juana Berga

Alina Baikova

Amanda Laine

Kristy Kaurova

Lindsey Wixson

D&G Spring 2010 RTW.

Abbey Lee

Heigh-ho and away we go. Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana took us on a wild and sexy romp through the American West for Spring, with wagonloads of faded denim snap-front shirts and holey boyfriend jeans, creamy lace blouses and tiered maxi skirts, laser-cut suede bloomers and minis, a saddle-leather bustier dress or two, and eyelet for just about everything.

Edita Vilkeviciute

It all came accessorized with bandannas, fanny packs, mail bags, and studded leather cowboy boots; the only things missing were the lassos and the spurs.

Regina Feoktistova

The duo has gotten their D&G collection down to a science. Pick a theme, then whip up the familiar leggy looks in the appropriate fabrics (when they went to the opera last season, it was brocaded silk corsets and pannier skirts).

Iris Strubegger

Still, there were a few surprises here, notably in the form of boxy pinstripe suits with western lapels and cropped, cuffed pants. And formula or no, eyelet, suede, and blue jeans are shaping up as important Spring looks.

Imogen Morris Clarke

Dolce and Gabbana haven't so much jumped on the bandwagon as they have presciently branded a few of the season's key trends.

Amanda Laine

Daniela Kocianova

Snejana Onopka

Tao Okamoto

Kelsey Van Mook

Tara Gill

Denisa Dvorakova

Eniko Mihalik

Heloise Guerin

Kori Richardson

Mathilde Frachon

Daul Kim

Valeria Dmitrienko

Charlotte di Calypso

Katrin Thormann

Karolin Wolter

Maryna Linchuk

Sona Matufkova

Masha Novoselova

Lovanni Pinnow

Olga Sherer

Auguste Tomasuite

Zuzana Gregorova
Viktoriya Sasonkina

Andreea Diaconu

Elsa Sylvan

Ginta Lapina

Alyona Osmanova

Sessilee Lopez

Luca Gadjus

Chanel Iman

Kelli Lumi

Katie Fogarty

Edita Vilkeviciute

Diana Farkhullina

Abbey Lee

Ginta Lapina

Hanna Rundlof

Vlada Roslyakova

Siri Tollerød

Snejana Onopka

Maryna Linchuk

Regina Feoktistova

Stefano Gabbana and Domenico Dolce