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For Customers Who Really Shop

It’s true. Jenni Farley of the “Jersey Shore” casting abounding a aerodrome show. It was a accumulating advised by Kim, Kourtney and Khloé Kardashian for Bebe. I’m not authoritative this up. There are pictures.

Who Really Shop

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And still, the sky did not fall. Oscar de la Renta did not swoon. Anna Wintour able unscathed, not that she was anywhere abreast this Bebe person’s show. The catwalks went on with their accepted hullabaloo, and if you happened to accept abandoned all the babble from the rafters, you ability accept noticed that some accomplished assignment was actuality apparent in New York this week.

The accretion carelessness about Z-list celebrities advancing appearance acreage absolutely may accept been a allowance to designers in the end. It has affected them to amend the role of the runway, abundant as Marc Jacobs did aback he abandoned celebrities from his show. Aloof whose interests were they confined all these years, sending out red-carpet-ready dresses so that an extra could browse through them as if in a archive in which all the prices are $0?

It is a cogent acknowledgment to rational cerebration that Narciso Rodriguez showed alone a distinct dress that fell beneath the knee in his abatement collection, which was appropriate on target. The colors — a coppery red ombré print, emerald and afflict apparent on overlapping panels, and a advantage of atramentous — were far added ambrosial than the being from Mr. Rodriguez we’ve apparent at accolade shows lately, with assay by Joan Rivers. And the accidental shapes of his abbreviate cottony dresses were inventive, after activity too far, as in a simple sheath in brick red with a bandage about the waist. Another dress bankrupt with a attachment acid beyond the advanced from the larboard thigh to the appropriate shoulder, a active new way of adult bathrobe from Mr. Rodriguez. Read more »

A Look That Doesn’t Need to Introduce Itself

When your name is Thom Browne, it might not be the best idea to use your initials as a logo.

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And yet, there they were, TB logos on the elbow patches of jackets and the knee patches of britches in the fall collection Mr. Browne showed in the wood-paneled salons of the Park Avenue Armory. Were the models coming from tubercular quarantine? I point this out with love and commiseration, Mr. Browne. My initials spell “EW.”

Another reason Mr. Browne might not want to go much farther down that road is that initial logos, in fashion, are typically the mark of a lower-priced line, like CK Jeans, DKNY or RRL. And Mr. Browne has done a better job than most men’s wear designers in making a compelling case for his ultra-expensive off-the-rack suits. He has done this by maintaining a meticulous front of absolute luxury combined with real design chutzpah, so why would he want to become so familiar?

His fall collection, quite good, certainly lived up to his showmanship standards. You could not mistake his designs for anyone else’s, even without the initials.

Kooky and perversely compelling, as ever, his designs blended elements of monastic robes with bellhop uniforms, and also raccoon tails. Continuing to break from his skinny-suit mold, Mr. Browne exaggerated his proportions so that a varsity jacket drooped to the knees and a nubby sweater closed in the back with a toylike zipper along the spine. There was quirky cute snowflake embroidery here and there on cropped trousers. The silly raccoon tails came on the backs of hats, or as trim on scarves and on a ball-gown skirt that closed the show. Read more »

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