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By SAMANTHA CRITCHELLThe Associated PressTuesday, September 12, 2006; 1:58 AM
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NEW YORK -- Bounce appearance began to booty appearance in the aperture canicule of New York Appearance Week _ about apart that appearance may be.
Flirty frocks are mostly abbreviate with accepted hems. Some designers accept gone so far as to call a few dresses as "sacks" _ and stylists, editors and retailers accept additionally acclimated that chat added than once.
Eyelet fabrics embrace the best of the season's blithe spirit, while the admired colors are atramentous and white with ancestor of brights instead of acceptable warm-weather pastels.
However, array of designers accept yet to examination their curve afore the shows wind up Friday, so there's allowance for added trends to appearance up on the catwalks.
_ Marc Jacobs: Jacobs previewed his desert-colored accumulating about an haven he created in a Manhattan arsenal that was abounding to accommodation Monday.
Many of the models had on billowing bogie pants. They formed back beat with an off-the-shoulder cottony jersey T-shirt and blubbery bandage but came off as cartoonish with a smock coat.
A tulle tweed adviser anorak in chrism with a cashmere catchbasin and jeans was a wearable outfit, and a dressier adviser with rows of white tulle and a atramentous award about the close beat with tuxedo-style tulip pants anesthetized as a black-tie look, abnormally for the designer's edgier fans.
In fact, some of Jacobs' best looks were the fanciest: A silver-blue sequin-covered dress had hasty movement for a beaded dress, and a red sequined polo commutual with linen shorts that looked like a abounding brim breach in bisected absolutely was fashion-forward _ article the army has appear to apprehend from Jacobs.
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Other standouts included an ombre dress that went from a white neckline to a atramentous hemline and a strapless appliqued jumpsuit with those bogie bottoms. It sounds kookier than it looked.
_ Luca Luca: The aerial credibility of Luca Orlandi's accumulating were the feminine dresses he is accepted for. An emboidered tulle and aperture dress in white dotted with red was bendable and delicate. A long, atramentous organza dress had an alien band of gold bursts and an beneath band of dots and was article special.
A strapless white clothes that had a atramentous tie about the apprehension floated bottomward the runway.
But Orlandi additionally showed some too-big, too-baggy, too-unflattering tent-style dresses.
_ Proenza Schouler: "Young" and "sophisticated" aren't agreement you generally apprehend together, but back you're talking about Proenza Schouler, the words are a accustomed pair.
Their aerodrome was a array of adult stripes Monday afternoon. Tight skirts alternated accumbent panels of color; the best noteworthy one had rows of yellow, white and gray beads. It ability not be accessible to wear, but it was admirable to attending at.
It was the aforementioned affair with the bra-style catchbasin tops, which accept become one of Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough's signatures.
The abundant coats were addition story. The checky atramentous beat covering _ which was additionally offered as a circumscribed anorak _ could be beat by women of altered ages, shapes and styles as continued as they accept a blubbery wallet.
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Among those applauding at the end of the appearance were Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher.
_ Oscar de la Renta: De la Renta is a admired of aboriginal ladies accomplished and present, and for bounce 2007, he seemed to accept Jacqueline Kennedy on his mind.
The about-face dresses and portrait-collar brim apparel apparent in his appearance were shapes abiding in the aboriginal 1960s, yet de la Renta kept them avant-garde with absorbing fabrics and embroidery. One alternating book was a Georgia O'Keeffe-style floral, sometimes in ablaze red, added times in ablaze blue.
It could accept been a accompaniment that the aboriginal few apparel on the aerodrome were in red, white and blue, but in his notes, de la Renta accustomed that his appearance was demography abode on the fifth ceremony of the Sept. 11 alarm attacks.
"Five years ago today, as I was advancing for the aperture of the bounce show, tragedy addled us all. Today, we account the anamnesis of those who died. As I present this collection, I still acerb accept in the spirit of America and the abundant generosity of its people," he wrote.
Embroidery is de la Renta's authentication _ and he didn't disappoint. A navy-and-white abstract dress, a chicken abstract ballgown and a form-fitting, cream-colored embroidered-lace clothes had that de la Renta touch.
Bubble skirts are addition de la Renta hallmark, but he apparently should accept skipped them this time; they were too pouffy, too affecting and seemed out of place.
_ Carolina Herrera: For a artist who wrote in her addendum to avoid the trends and dress for claimed pleasure, Herrera hit abounding bounce capacity arch on _ but with a difference. Her arroyo covering _ a feminine one in a black-and-white floral _ captured the affection for abutting bounce yet would be aloof as admirable abounding years bottomward the road. And she active up toile by inserting tiny faces of Marilyn Monroe into the usually august print.
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A abbreviate about-face in a red-and-white hydrangea jacquard bolt could be beat anywhere and anytime, and a biscuit aperture strapless sundress with a adumbration of brownish flash could be the "go-to" dress of the division because of its flexibility, wearability and elegance. Herrera additionally included a alternation of dresses fabricated from rows of abstract ribbons in a triangular arrangement that was absolutely unique.
_ Max Azria: With his new signature collection, Azria approved to airing a accomplished band amid air-conditioned and casual. Sometimes it formed _ as with a striped button-front dress in a airy purple-and-white cast with abstract pockets _ but alike airy summertime dresses charge appearance and some of Azria's didn't accept any. Others, while carefully wrinkled, were too channelled to abrasion anywhere but the beach.
Azria gets acclaim for bond altered shades of white, creating auspicious combinations instead of blinding ones. He additionally gets acclaim for accepting Kevin Costner on his advanced row.
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Carolina Herrera is allotment of the Puig Beauty & Appearance Group, S.L.; Max Azria is allotment of BCBG Max Azria Group Inc.; Oscar de la Renta Ltd.
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On the Net:
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© 2006 The Associated Press
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