Fashion Week: Isaac Mizrahi

Posted by Linda Miller

on February 20, 2009M at 8:05 am

Don’t get me started on how much I love designer Isaac Mizrahi. Let’s just hope he can inject some life in Liz Claiborne. Anyway, he presented his fall ’09 signature collection and, boy, do I wish I could have seen it. Here’s a story from the Associated Press.

NEW YORK (AP) — For a good time, call Isaac Mizrahi. The fall collection he presented Thursday at New York Fashion Week was dubbed “Smile,” and the audience couldn’t do anything but that.

Whether a surely pricey Christmas-tinsel coat would count as an investment piece, it was a gift to a crowd of retailers, editors and stylists who have seen their fare share of tough, no-nonsense styles.

And who else but Mizrahi would put handbags on models’ heads as hats?

A dress made of a patchwork of beaded plaids is probably more for the runway than the real world, but it’ll make for an eye-catching photo in a magazine.

There were, however, several wearable looks, especially colorful blanket coats, kilts in watch plaids and a knockout daytime wrap-style coatdress with pleats down the back that he called “butterscotch lozenge.” Soothing indeed.

It’s surprising that Mizrahi, who splits his time between his high-end signature collection and the mainstream Liz Claiborne label, isn’t more of a red-carpet player considering some of the gowns on the runway were knockouts — especially a one-shoulder gold satin number with a croc-style texture and an Asian-floral beaded dress. His “nuts and bolts” metallic sequin camisole and skirt of varying size beads also belongs on a Hollywood star.