Tuleh

NEW YORK, September 7, 2008
By Nicole Phelps
The anniversary trend continues apace. This season, Calvin celebrates 40 years in business, DKNY 20, and Tuleh 10. For an independent brand like Bryan Bradley's—he actually just sold a 49 percent stake in his company earlier this summer—surviving a decade is no small achievement. And the collection he showed in Martha Stewart's West 26th Street offices, which reprised some of his greatest hits and that never felt like a rehash, was a living demonstration of how he did it. In a word, consistency.

Fashion has swung back and forth a few times since Bradley began making quirky-pretty dresses for the social set, but the designer hasn't wavered. In tonight's lineup, there were pretty-pretty nipped-waist sheaths, the best in a beaded floral lace; jacquard suits with lantern-sleeve jackets and the narrowest of pencil skirts; and shirred chiffon dresses that demonstrated Bradley's zany taste in mismatched prints (devotees will recognize some of the fabrics from past collections). One of the show's highlights was a thirties siren gown in a black-and-white floral chiffon just sheer enough to reveal the cheeky polka-dot print beneath—and just the thing to woo back any of those followers, who, like that ceaseless fashion pendulum, may have temporarily gone in a different direction.

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