Storm Irene: Anne Vyalitsyna

Monday, September 21, 2009

Zac Posen Spring 2010 RTW.

Vlada Roslyakova

Much has been made about Zac Posen moving his show from Thursday night to Monday morning—at 9 a.m., no less—and leaving Bryant Park's big tent for the modest-in-comparison Altman Building.

Irina Lazareanu

Whether it was because of financial pressures or because, as the designer explained, the smaller venue was better suited to the collection, it worked. As they say, change will do you good: Posen's clothes felt more youthful and looked like a lot more fun to wear than they have lately, starting with the opening series of little color-blocked dresses, some with sassy cutouts.

Maryna Linchuk

Pieced together from shades of blue, the best of the bunch dipped low in front and came with a flirty flared skirt. He called it a twist dress, and you could picture some pretty young thing kicking up her heels in it on a crowded dance floor.

Elsa Sylvan

Posen remains a social guy at heart. There were a few suits, and while they didn't exactly look like afterthoughts, party clothes are where he really shines. For Spring, he played with prints both small-scale—on a sexy, asymmetric-neckline cocktail dress in a tiny pebble pattern, for example—and large (a tiger designed by downtown artist Rosson Crow looked ready to pounce off a man-killer of a halter gown). Here's one advantage to the 9 a.m. time slot Posen may not have envisioned: Now his social butterflies have time enough to call something in for tonight's round of parties.

Alana Zimmer

Abbey Lee

Kim Noorda

Anne Vyalitsyna

Amanda Laine

Heloise Guerin

Egle Tvirbutaite

Sessilee Lopez

Coco Rocha

Mina Cvetkovic

Marina Peres

Behati Prinsloo

Siri Tollerød

Hye Park

Alek Wek

Tao Okamoto

Jules Mordovets

Maryna Linchuk

Bette Franke

Mia Rosing

Anna Cleveland

Daiane Conterato

Anabela Belikova

Alana Zimmer

Rose Cordero

Julija Steponaviciute

Vlada Roslyakova

Coco Rocha

Bruna Tenorio

Elsa Sylvan

Hana Soukupova

Abbey Lee

Daul Kim

Tiiu Kuik

Tao Okamoto

Zac Posen and Tao Okamoto

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Prada Resort 2010.

Anna de Rijk

If the economy is getting to Miuccia Prada, her Resort collection didn't show it.

Alisa Matviychuk

In sharp contrast to the austerity of her Fall show, this one had pretty draped-back dresses in camel color-blocked with pastels; cheeky scarf-print bikini briefs with ties at the hips, worn with neon-bright button-downs; and eye candy in the form of little duffel bags in colorful florals that matched the models' ankle-tie sandals.

Anabela Belikova

The bow was a recurring motif, appearing at the neckline and elbows of an asymmetrically draped black top, at the hem of narrow underskirts, and at the back of float-y, vaguely 1920's-ish wallpaper-print dresses. The cumulative effect was appealingly unstudied. Call it Prada's antidote for trying fashion times.