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Our Favorite Collection Of The Season

Says Sarah Mower in Style.com:

Nothing at Lanvin ever comes at less than top price. In a tanking economy, that would seem to contradict Elbaz's stated aim to embrace "realism" and the generality of women's daily concerns. It all depends, though, how pennies are counted, how long clothes can be worn, and whether they're destined to be made obsolete by fashion within six months. With this collection, Elbaz deliberately built a defense against that lack of confidence, going back to re-do pieces (like the raw-edged charmeuse dresses) he first came up with five years ago. His message: What was good then is just as good now, and what's bought now can have just as much value years hence. In a year when all other financial investments look like a joke, a Lanvin one is as rock-solidly trustworthy as fashion can be.

Hurrah! It sounds like rationalizing, but we totally believe it. Even if we can't afford it. We can still believe. 

—see some of our past fashion week coverage here

Our Absolute Favorite NYFW Look

We've been through all the Style.com slides, and honestly, we're not feeling the week thus far. This is Carlos Miele. We even disliked Temperley, which is always one of our favorites. Tss.

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