Fashion Week: Ralph Lauren
Fashion Week fall ‘09 rolled to an end Friday, but I’ll continue to post about the shows and trends for a few more days. Then it will be on to spring.
Here’s an Associated Press story on the Ralph Lauren show.
NEW YORK (AP) — Ralph Lauren doesn’t do the high-low fashion thing, with each garment that bears his collection label as fine and luxe as the next.
On the runway Friday, however, as he previewed his fall collection, he showed off his hallmark version of fashion mixing and matching that keeps his look modern: town and country.
A belle-of-the-ball champagne-colored gown with layer upon layer of tulle was topped with a gold lame vest and a tweed jacket, while glamorous eyelash beading of a honey-hued charmeuse dress peeked out from underneath a cozy cardigan.
Satin jodhpurs could go to the office under a fair isle sweater — if you’ve got the figure to pull off those pants.
The clothes could be worn by a sophisticated woman of any age, proven by “Gossip Girl’s” Blake Lively, who looked both youthful and elegant in the front row wearing a long, slim sweater dress and cropped, buttery leather jacket.
Most looks on the catwalk were monochromatic, moving from black to gray to winter white, although he did add occasional metallic pieces, sparkly scarves and jeweled watches, part of his new timepiece collection, for a flash of splash.
A new fashion-forward outerwear silhouette was a short crisscross wool jacket that had a portrait collar and showed a sliver of skin when worn over backless eveningwear, but a cashmere turtleneck would look just as good underneath.
Chic winter-white embroidered and shearling coats seemed the ultimate luxury — you need to be a limousine lady to keep that clean in the city. Maybe that’s one piece to save for the country.
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