Retail's picking up in New York. Formerly empty stores are opening up again. Maybe that goes some way to explaining the clothes on these pages. You don't need to look quite such a ball-breaker when good times are on the horizon. It's only when it's really tough that folk start wearing suits again. Whatever the causes, New York's easing up - style-wise, at least.
handed approach is looking very Kim Kardashian. Neurotic Chic - a look formerly favoured by many a tense-looking fashion insider here - is giving way to more relaxed codes: maxi-skirts, floppy hats, floppy printed trousers, often worn with tunic tops or long, wafty dresses, sporty details (yet again), sensible-looking block heels and a looser, less vampy way of dressing at night; and lots and lots of buttoned-up plain white cotton shirts, worked into shirt-dresses, jackets and sometimes worn au natural, as plain white shirts.It's possible that one day we'll look back on spring/summer 2013 as the beginning of the end for the reality-show culture. At any rate, give or take the occasional sighting of front-row perennial Kate Bosworth, this was the lowest celeb count of any New York fashion week for a decade.
Is the fash pack getting more decisive or just more sleep deprived? Tough call. On the penultimate day of shows, consensus was Marchesa’s Bollywood-inspired beaded and brocaded flights of fashion fancy when beyond the point of OTT, and by comparison Michael Kors’s rugby striped prototypes felt a little, well, catalog. Meanwhile, way downtown at the Beekman Palace, with their grommeted perforated leather and digital reptilian printed spliced creations, the Proenza boys nailed the sweet spot between art and commerce.
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