Best (and Worst) In Show Awards
The long drawn out awards season is finally coming to an end on Sunday, with the Academy Awards. So, as I looked back at what transpired both on and off the runways during New York Fashion Week, I thought I’d give out my own awards. Click images for full size views.
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| The collection that best exemplified “Glam Goth”: Rodarte |
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| Thom Browne’s evocation of Washington Square Park at the turn of the century (his show was held at Skylight Modern Studios) |
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| Tommy Hilfiger’s replication of his own cruise line (the T.H. Atlantic). His show was held at the Park Avenue Armory where the ceiling was made to resemble a star filled sky at nightfall. The setting was so good it upstaged the clothes being presented. |
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| The collection that was the most fantastical and architectural and made the best use of unexpectedly delicious color combinations, and couture like embellishments: Delpozo by Joseph Font. |
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| The most effective way to warm up ripped jeans in subzero weather: Layer them over thick black tights a la Susie Lau. |
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| The most clever (and least suggestive) way to wear your bra on the outside (and make it look believable in the winter): Take a page from Taylor Tomasi Hill who managed to make her hot pink Dries Van Noten bra look rather chic and tomboyish by layering it over a borrowed from the boys’ button down shirt, throwing on an army fatigue green jacket, and adding an enormous muffler. |
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| The most creative way to add some pizzazz to a classic camel coat: Take a lead from Samantha Angelo and throw it over the shoulders of a colorful serape striped vintage Todd Oldham pantsuit. |
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| The most inspired use of fur on a runway: Thom Browne created a wide lapel woven plaid overcoat from white mink, astrakhan fur, and red, white and navy grosgrain, and showed it with red, white and navy melton trousers and a grey plaid melton jacket. |
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| The best dressed show goer: Giovanna Battaglia, who looked weather appropriate and darn chic in her fabulous outerwear (which included Prada’s striped reefer from Spring Summer 2016). |
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| The most effective way to cover up your neck, if it’s a part of your body you “feel bad about” (in the words of the late Nora Ephron): Wear a choker (the bigger the better), such as the ones seen at Rihanna’s Fenty X Puma Collaboration, and Rodarte, where they were as wide as belts. |
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| The footwear most likely to result in a trip to the emergency room and a broken ankle: Marc Jacobs’ vertiginous platforms (even some of the models had a hard time staying upright). |
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| The collection which poses the biggest problem for closet challenged NY apartments: Marc Jacobs, with its voluminous over scaled pieces. |
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| The most surprising show venue: Alexander Wang’s choice of the historic St. Bartholomew’s Church on Park Avenue. |
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The most inspired use of animal patterns on a runway: Francisco Costa’s lynx and skunk photo printed leather coats which were shown over matching silk shifts at Calvin Klein. |
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| The strangest (okay, the most repulsive) print shown on a runway: Marc Jacobs’ black and white rats and cats print (maybe he was inspired by Conde Nast’s ‘rat’ infestation when they first moved into 1 World Trade?). |
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| The biggest disappointment: Peter Copping’s vision for Oscar de la Renta. Since being named as Creative Director of the label in October 2014, I have thought that his designs were perfectly nice, but by and large, not really memorable, and unfortunately, that doesn’t cut it these days. |
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| The most feel-good, heartwarming moment on a runway: Naeem Khan partnered with the Make-A-Wish Foundation and granted cancer stricken 11 year old Trinity Faith Moran her wish of walking down the runway in one of his beautiful dresses. |
(All Images Vogue.com except Delpozo which should be credited to Javier Tomás Biosca)
