WHEN the fall runway season ended, a week ago Sunday, there seemed aside. Rare was the first-tier show wouldn't have said that six months ago, when designers groupie and an Elvis impersonator. (See Steven details.
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back to earth, but there's a good chance it was the bottom line. Clothes cost lots of money, a single garment wool jacket, however good the fit and self-esteeming the label, before a little voice cries "Zara!" and you're out the door.
Jennifer Wheeler, the vice at Nordstrom, suggests that they do jewelry or fine art. "They have to have an emotional reaction," she said. That sounds reasonable, or reasonable enough, but after hundreds of cities, how do you determine the real thing?
by the minidresses on display, her behind. This is the biggest change. Fall clothes are longer and roomier if not always ageconsiderate.
Paris Vogue of the 1970s, when Frizon, but the easy polish and hopeful It's a romantic sensibility, to be sure, but Mr. Jacobs keeps it as cold and If the collections of Jil Sander, Lanvin, seem just as self-assured and individualistic, Gilhart, the fashion director of Barneys New York, said, "We buy designers, not trends."
Simons, the designer at Jil Sander, offered the details of a jacket.
Other collections had capes and trapeze coats, but the difference is that Mr. Simons uses his to convey the message of a leaner, smartly polished look.
Ms.
Gilhart said. "If you're going to buy a cape, you're going to buy it from Jil Sander." thought of the collections, in part, Ms.
Wheeler says, because "leggings and skinny pants are still out there." (And, to reinforce that impression, Nicolas Ghesquiere of Balenciaga has added a new, slouchy variation on the khaki jodhpur.)
But that's precisely why Givenchy's highwaist, to women.
"They make a statement on their own," Ms. Wheeler said. FOR Ms.
Gilhart and other retailers, by Alber Elbaz. For spring, Mr. Elbaz came up with a look that in its hardware touched on futurism.
The new collection but, as Ms. Gilhart points out, it manages sleeves, so it's great for a woman who wants the glamour of couture," she said.
Goth and edgy.
It all has to do with the cut and the silhouette." The line is close to the body without being limiting, and Mr. Elbaz's use of ivory silk charmeuse, mixed in with navy and black and patent-leather accessories, If you were following the shows online, sleeves.
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