Three interesting female designers - Nicole Miller, Erin Fetherston and Katy Rodriguez - showed on rainy Friday night in NY. Miller is the queen of the moderate priced dress, and this time, she showed brocade cocktail dresses, striped dresses, floral dresses with long sleeves, cobalt sweaters with black dresses, and a couple of eighties style coats - one in bumblebee yellow - with short dolman batwing sleeves, over black long sleeves underneath, paired with black tights - it's very Stephen Sprouse eighties.
Erin Fetherston has so far established herself as the princess of cutesy; tiered princess style short cocktail dresses for twenty somethings with their first taste of nightlife. She did frocks once again - in print chiffons, pop and op-art prints, but added more grownup peacoats and capes, so that the feathery weight dresses got slightly winterized. But who needs to stay warm in a nightclub?
Katy Rodriguez is an L.A. designer best known for her bubble dresses; but for fall, she went super eighties, doing black mini suits with peaked shoulder details (looking like a hanger problem), and showed all her black pieces with orange tights and matching orange pumps. Kids; don't try this at home. It was a nice try to inject some electric juice into all those hard edged eighties style; but it's best left to a runway. Colored tights for fall? Yes. Orange tights ever? Mais non.
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