Fashion Week spring 2010: Oscar de la Renta

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on September 17, 2009M at 9:31 am

Oscar de la Renta spring 2010 runway show in New York. AP PHOTO

NEW YORK (AP) — Oscar de la Renta shared his world with New York Fashion Week on Wednesday, offering a spring collection that’s well-traveled, luxurious and a bit exotic.

The clothes, presented at the former church on the Upper East Side that de la Renta has made the home of his fashion shows, had some of the elaborate beadwork and embroidery that are the designer’s hallmark, but he also was aware of the times and the world around him, avoiding anything that would be considered too haughty.

He seemed to draw inspiration from style traditions in Africa, South America and Southeast Asia, among other places.

A teal-blue coat with citrine-green embroidery topped a white lace dress, a strapless gown was covered in sunburned bronze-and-red sequins, while another gown had a bejeweled turquoise and coral waistband. Gilded gold decorated the shoulders of a nude-colored cotton blouse worn with an embellished pencil skirt. That outfit didn’t hold back on gold jewelry, either.

Oscar de la Renta spring 2010 runway show in New York. AP PHOTO

Safari jackets were paired with skinny silk-faille pants, and a pair of linen gaucho pants was worn with a white cotton blouse and a bronze tweed jacket. Even for de la Renta, though, another white blouse had such oversized sleeves that it was way too over the top (and worn under a citrine strapless frock, no less).

A nod to the more casual style of dressing was the cropped denim jacket that was worn over black dress with purple and teal embroidery.

The models in the more traditional de la Renta eveningwear — taffeta and organza gowns in bright fuchsia and red as well as a black lace-and-organza ruffled and embellished one — wore lace mantillas on their heads.

The most elaborate outfit was the finale piece: a strapless gown made of layers upon layers of gray and blue tulle with a bodice covered in crystals.