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NEW YORK – The story of New York Fashion Week has been told in mostly
black and white — making it that much harder to ignore all the unusual
prints on the runway, even if they, too, were color-free.
Marc Jacobs
put out oversized black-and-white and red stripes on Monday a day after
stripe-happy Tommy Hilfiger, whose red stripes were inspired by rope.
Carolina Herrera showed an abstract geometric print on Monday, while
Elie Tahari took his prints from Palm Beach, mixing palm leaves, leopard skin and
tropical flowers. in earlier previews,
Thakoon Panichgul had playful birds, Suno had a retro
cell phone print and Jason Wu had prints reminiscent of an X-Ray. At
Rebecca Taylor the print was Hawaiian, with fish scales at Monique Lhuillier and “space clouds” at
Nicole Miller. “Prints are personality, they have emotion, they tell a story,” said
Stacey Bendet, designer of
Alice and Olivia — herself wearing a leopard-print dress on Monday to present a collection that included a variety of florals — from
digital prints to painterly and candy-colored.
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week continues through Thursday before the fashion crowd heads to London, Milan and Paris.
MARC JACOBS
Let’s switch gears: For the past five days, the chatter at New York
Fashion Week has been about softening the edges, but Marc Jacobs changed
the conversation — as he often does — after going graphic.
Black-and-white stripes followed by red stripes, tan stripes and more black-and-white stripes came rapid fire down the runway.
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