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Marc Jacobs and the End of NY Fashion Week

We love, love, love the weird pastel colors from Marc Jacobs' week-ending show on Friday, but we don't know if there's so much in there we're dying to wear \\ going to be sad we can't afford.

The Project Runway Collections!

Oh! Did everyone see the Project Runway designer shows? These are our favorite looks from each show, in order of preference—though we admit to a bit (a lot) of waffling with our top two in particular. We have to say: There was Uli for us this year.

Above: Jillian. We love what she's wearing, and what she usually wears, and, usually, what she makes. We didn't looove the show. We are also putting her first because we just cannot bear to make Christian first.

Above: Christian. It was pretty fabulous. We are not using the other F word.

Above: Chris. We love him, we just want all of this in different, lighter, nicer fabrics.

Above: Rami. Honestly, when the series started we thought he was going to be amazing, but it was sort of like he stopped trying three shows in, no?

Above: Sweet P. Honestly, we didn't totally love this, but we love her, and she was like five million times better than she usually is on the show. We think her problem is confidence. Not that we have any idea, but we suggest.

Fashion Week Continued: BCBG

In reviewing the week's looks, one thing is clear: We need a tie-belt, stat!

And a dress with—would you call that a bubble hem? We would. From BCBG Max Azria.

Fashion Week Yay! And Jovovich Hawk

We have our issues with models-turned-designers (er, let's be honest: models-turned-anything) but this Jovovich Hawk dress is the one we want the most, of everything we've seen. Until fall, it's last season on sale: Jovovich-Hawk pinstriped shirt, was $264, now $132

Chanel = American Apparel + Forever 21 (More or Less)

So this Chanel jacket, above, from SS08, is like this jacket from Forever 21:

Forever 21 wide stripe blazer, $24.80

And this cardigan from American Apparel that is somehow not made available online, but is adorable, and looks sort of like this one, but with stripes:

This one is: the unisex tri-blend rib cardigan, $40. And the one we love is $44.

Fashion Week Begins!

So! We have to say: We were feeling very down about the whole fashion week thing: so much work, so little time for yoga, and sleep, and eating, and reading magazines. But then, sort of bizarrely, all of Lower Manhattan seemed to break out in Fashion Week, and it was all really quite lovely. There was a sign in the building next to us where the Y-3 fitting was going on, and slightly less fashionably, Aldo had a big sign in the window about NY Fashion Week. So were in a bit of a better mood about it.

We'll say this: This is our first Fashion Week as a, like, behind-the-scenes worker-bee rather than an observer. And we were feeling a bit meh about the whole thing. But then we saw the venue for the first show we worked (YouTube'd above!) and it was beautiful, and the whole thing was quite amazing, even if we weren't very excited about most of the the clothes. (Though the first two dresses you'll see here, the second by Rodarte, were really nice, and we got to see Stam up close.) And we thought: It's so amazing that journalists, which is what we are when we're not reading names off a list, get to see all this stuff, and for free. The pay sucks, the hours suck, and the job security is non-existent. But stuff like this, we think, makes it pretty much worthwhile. For a while now we wouldn't be sure if we'd recommend it. We have decided that we would, and we do.

Couture Week: Chanel Video

"Coco Chanel, Coco shell": It is awesome watching Karl Lagerfeld think.

But anyway: Look how sleek those jackets look!

All That Couture: Valentino

We don't know why it is, but the couture shows always manage, paradoxically, to convince us that if we really tried, we could totally be a fashion designer.

Above: Valentino

Fashion Week Slowly Winds Up: Alexander McQueen

Belts! Just belts. We are weary of the fashion weeks. But. Belts!

Fashion Week Continues: Pucci

This is the only show we've seen where every single piece—er, not every single one, but close—we're like, Mm, we need a new, paying job.

See the entire show here.

Fashion Week Continues: Burberry

Man, this Agyness person is freaking everywhere. And now with brown hair! Anyway: This is Burberry's spring show, and we thought we'd pull this image because it's like basically what we talked about yesterday, with all the belts, just in a lighter, springtime-appropriate way. We feel like it's all Project Runway and Christopher Bailey's all like, See what a consistent point of view I have? But in Milan, and he's already famous.

Anyway. Don't miss the entire Burberry show here.

Fashion Week Continues: Paul Smith

One of the papers in London described the Paul Smith collection as the sort of stuff your wacky, young art teacher would wear, and they were so right. It's like right out of Notes on a Scandal or something.

Fashion Week Continues: Luella

Lace-up trouser shoes + high-waisted skirt = basically every trend we hate about fall 2007, now guaranteed to at least make an appearacen in spring 2008.

But see all of the generally less irritating Luella show here.

Fashion Week Continues: The MJ Kerfuffle

If you haven't seen it already, be sure to read WWD's report on the blow-up following Marc Jacobs' show ... er, last week. So this is not our most timely link. But it's sort of awesome. Our favorite quote, from MJ:

When complaints were raised that the show's attendees had families to go home to (and all we're saying is that we've been to a number of fashion shows, and we have difficulty believing a good portion of the people there were capable of nourishing, say, a Chia pet):

"I work my ass off," he said. "I don't take vacations, I don't have homes all over the world, I don't ride horses: I f---ing work for a living. Again, like this idea, you have a family? OK, well that's nice, I don't, and I work. So leave me alone and don't come to the show next time."

See the whole thing here.

In tribute to MJ, we present one of his new MXMJ shoes for fall. They are in our hated platform oxford style. We hate what we do not understand.

Marc by Marc Jacobs oxfords, $450

Fashion Week Continues: Marc Jacobs

Er, we know this is from last week, and we've all moved on, literally and psychologically, to London FW, but we are still puzzling out all the WTF moments from the MJ show. We are increasingly less WTF and slightly more: We are totally buying some high-waisted ... er, briefs? As soon as possible.

See the whole MJ show here.

Speaking of Marc Jacobs, we need to say that we spent a whole weekend with someone wearing Marc by Marc Jacobs sunglasses and we are now totally covetous. MXMJ sunglasses, $90

Fashion Week Continues: Calvin Klein

This show was so pretty but good God the blond Stepford Wife models were a little bit much, no? See them in their glory here.

Fashion Week Continues: Narciso Rodriguez

We prefer to believe that the model here is suffering from the same just-walking-along-so-why-is-my-dress-suddenly-and-aggravatingly-stuck-between-my-legs? syndrome that we have been known to occasionally suffer. Here and there, now and then. Of course, now we're wondering if it's physically possible for a piece of fabric to be sandwiched between that model's concave upper thighs.

Er, we're going with our first instinct. See the entire Narciso R. show here.

Fashion Week Continues: Temperley

We are excited for Temperley for Target (October, sure enough) more than any of the other random Target collaborations. (Seriously, at some point, they are just going to run out of people.) Unlike the runway stuff, we might be able to afford it. Can we add, here, that this is a picture of Agyness Deyn, and we were totally convinced she was in our yoga class today until we realized it was fashion week and she was probably ... er, not in a yoga class in north London.

See the complete Temperley collection here and images from the Target collection here.

NY Fashion Week!

Pretty dress! Someone give the model a pretzel. We just wrote out 500 words why it's pointless carping about how skinny the models are, and we're not getting emotionally invested in this or anything, because life is too short and we'd rather involve ourselves in issues we might actually be able to influence, like the speed at which the Earth revolves on its axis or something, but still: Pretty dress! And oh, whatever. Welcome to Fashion Week!

Above: Vena Cava

Fashion Week Continues, Er, Ends: Louis Vuitton

Actually this is more about a trend than about LV, because the colors (above) make our head explode.

Can we say that we will not be partaking of the wide-load trend, as demonstrated by Louis Vuitton above and Miu Miu below?

Fashion Week Continues: Miu Miu

We have always hated those Japanese optical-illusion-underwear skirts (below). This from Miu Miu sort of reminded us of them.

And this reminds us of the whole Edie Sedgwick not-wearing-pants thing:

And now we feel the Miu Miu love again:

Fashion Week Continues: John Galliano

We sort of want to live in a world where John Galliano dresses absolutely everyone. We never have any idea what to take from his shows. Stuffed dear? Maybe not. We love the colors in this one, the delft blue and hot pink and ... is that mustard?

Wellies!

Fashion Week Continues: Balenciaga

Oh, Balenciaga. Bright tights! That is like the smallest detail. It is all so spectacular.

This was our favorite, because, we are thinking: khakis from American Eagle! Brilliant gorgeous jacket from Balenciaga! It is sort of budget, that way, we think.

Fashion Week Continues: Viktor & Rolf

Possibly the funniest \ weirdest write-up we've ever seen in Style.com: "The mild-mannered and scrupulously polite [Viktor] Horsting and [Rolf] Snoeren can hardly be suspected of being closet sadists, but in this case their concept crossed over into cruelty." It looks kind of awesome in the pictures, however. Ridiculous, but awesome. Even if it is impossible to sort of get your heads around the clothes when you can't stop staring at the fact that the models have scaffolding coming out of their shoulders.

Fashion Week Continues: Balmain

We kept trying to pick out one look from the Balmain show to back up our to-be-made claim that it's great. We couldn't, exactly. They are all sort of weird. But we really encourage anyone to page through them. They are sort of awesome. They're all like from some movie that hasn't been written, like that Aimee Mann album.

Fashion Week Continues: Gucci

We don't get Gucci anymore. We felt like this whole show was very Cate Blanchett in The Aviator, but ... well, we can't afford the clothes. Sometimes we mind. This time we didn't.

Fashion Week Continues: Moschino Cheap and Chic

The buttons on that jacket on the left just look mis-buttoned to us. No? But: take-away lesson from Moschino Cheap + Chic: terrifying bright tights are here to torment us at least through next season.

Fashion Week Continues: Prada

Prada FW 07! We are totally not even going there. We will try the turban:

But scary shoes and knee socks? Pass.

Fashion Week Continues: Burberry Prorsum

We are so baffled by the Burberry Prorsum coat parade. On one hand: terrifying! On the other: sort of bad ass!

Our favorite is the one on the left.

Maybe we will satisfy ourselves with an over-the-top belt, like this one.

Dilemma

We are often confounded—in general, but also in particular: What sort of coat is the right sort to wear with a tunic and skinny pants or leggings? Our head says cropped, to keep all the proportions [sort of] right, but we only like that look when the front's kept unbuttoned or zipped (to keep it clear that you're wearing a tunic over pants and not a skirt, which has for some reason always bothered us) or the whole thing is super narrow to avoid bulk. And then sometimes we think the jacket \ coat should be longer than the tunic. Or that it should only be a combo worn in warm weather, to avoid the jacket conundrum entirely.

Anyway. We could try to work this out for days, and we are not sure we would be any closer to the answer. But here are a few ideas, which we poached from Topshop's glorious LFW coverage. (Do be sure to watch the Unique fashion show. Love the belts!)

Fashion Week Continues: Fashion East

We were a little over this joke last year. (UHU GARETH PUGH etc.) Last year, our over-ness was mixed with a dose of "Well, that's sort of clever." This year, we're like: What else you got up your sleeve, dude? We say "dude" entirely too often. Tss. We're pretty sure all the models are, like, "Please let me get a rhyming t-shirt next year."

We'd want one too. Tss.

By the way, we are anti-random-fashion-t-shirts-that-endorse-cocaine-use. We're not scandalized. We're just bored.

Fashion Week Continues: Christopher Kane

If Christopher Kane's color palette dictates fall like it has spring, let's expect lots of wine, washed-out blue, emerald, and ruby. And black. Lots of black.

By the way! We're not super excited about his brand-spanking-new collection for Topshop, but if you're into it, move fast—we're betting it's sold out in, say, 10 minutes.

We'd like this "sweat top" a lot more if that was cashmere rather than cotton. Even if that missed the point. Sweat top, about $120

Fashion Week Continues: Trovata

We have thought about it quite a bit, and although we find the whole hiring-actors-to-carry-a-cat-around-Fashion-Week thing a little ... tiring, we do really like Trovata. We super really like that cat, we have to say. We have known many cats, and that one must be either pumped full of Ambien or 100 years old.

We also need to say that until this very moment we thought this guy was wearing a bear hat.

What we love most is whoever made the decision to go with all the bright tights.

This is our favorite of all the Trovata stuff online, and we have to say: It's not like we love it.

Trovata cami, was $141, now $99

Fashion Week Continues: Vena Cava

Vena Cava has lately been the show we've looked forward to the most, but this year: WTF? We await the Gas Station Couture editorial.

We will content ourselves with memories of fall 06:

The burgundy patterned dress—not our favorite, but whatever—is still available, at Le Train Bleu.

Louise dress, $308

Fashion Week Continues: Rodarte

We so want to love Rodarte, because all the cool girls do and of course, we so desperately want to be cool. Oh, not really, but you know what we mean. We just see it and think: "Oh, so unwearable." We do not know why we refrain from thinking this when we saw unbelievable gorgeous but $4500 Oscar de la Renta gowns, which are unwearable simply because we will never, in this lifetime, be able to afford them. It is just a different kind of unwearability, we're thinking. Anyway: What do you all think of Rodarte? We're so torn.

Above: love it [even though it makes the 50-pound model look a little big on top, sort of, or maybe like it is just a bit puffy or something]

Sort of like it [why is it making a big X in the middle?]:

Love it most, in the sense that we could actually envision wearing it:

Baffled, and we know this was the first look:

Fashion Week Continues: Marc Jacobs

None of those images above will click-through (though this will) but really we just wanted to briefly discuss two things here: A. There is not so much volume. Up and down, no? It's not a Munchkin-suitiing silhouette, but it's nice to see a change, nonetheless. And B. Those colors. Watermelon, cornflower blue, white, black, mustard. We want to go all Domino and make it into a living room or something. Marc Jacobs! Just so Marc Jacobs-y.

Fashion Week Continues: Luella

The whole Luella collection is so "Alfie! What's it all about?"—by the way, not a good movie, either the Michael Caine original or the Jude Law remake, which we can blame for any and all Law \ Miller ridiculousness. (Team Sadie, as it were, except for the part about the Ecstasy tablet and the infant daughter.)

But these!

It's just, like, not just skinny, but hot pink and skinny. Of course we want them \ fear them in roughly equal measure.

Fashion Week Continued: Alexandre Herchcovitch

This dress is made from Tyvek. The Fed Ex envelope ["pak"] material. We love how Alexandre Herchcovitch's shows are always one part fashion show, two parts conceptual art project. We are just waiting for the girls wearing cat suits lapping up the milk, which we would like to add is something we have actually witnessed in one of our classes. We have not yet mentioned the "meow meow" soundtrack playing. Oh, art school! And oh, Alexandre Herchcovitch. We have no idea how this man stays in business, but we love it.

Photos courtesy shopstyle.com

Fashion Week Begins!

With Baby Phat. We cannot decide which look is more Hilda Suarez, above or below. No? And that is the most pissed-off-looking model we have ever seen, all like, "Why aren't I the one wearing the pony-trimmed denim knee-high boots?"

FW photos sponsored by ShopStyle.com

More Questions Than Ever

Are those nude leggings? Nude tights? A body suit? Is that an elephant?

And they say fashion doesn't raise important questions: pshaw!

Entire Basso & Brooke collection from London Fashion Week thusly.