Call it optimism or call it escapism, but Spring 2010 is the season of the ruffled party dress: usually short, often chiffon, and almost always nude (we refer to both the color and the prevalence of sheer fabrics). Marc Jacobs—who else?—kicked the trend into high gear with his parade of ballet nymphs in New York. [...]

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Style.com’s editor in chief Dirk Standen reports from the Spring 2010 collections…
New York fashion is having a moment—a Wile E. Coyote moment, to be precise. Like the rest of the world, the clothing business fell off a cliff last year. And yet, we still haven’t plummeted to earth. Women’s Wear Daily, those party poopers, began [...]

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They don’t call New York the melting pot for nothing. On today’s fashion week schedule alone, we’ve got an imported Brit (Victoria Beckham), a Norwegian (Elise Øverland), and a Japanese-German collaboration in the form of Yohji Yamamoto and Adidas’ Y-3 collection. New to the calendar are four Spanish talents presenting under the MMODANY banner. Style.com [...]

Cousins Lee and Ben Copperwheat couldn’t have asked for more British weather for the New York debut of the Copperwheat collection Friday. The English duo presented men’s and women’s on the roof deck of the Maritime, in what was hopefully the worst weather we’ll see all fashion week, but they managed to brighten an otherwise [...]

Last season, Arise, the fashion and culture magazine published out of Nigeria, celebrated its debut issue with a runway showcase of emerging design talent. This season, to celebrate the launch of AriseLive.com, Nduka Obaigbena, the publication’s owner, was back with what appears to be a bi-annual tradition, the Promise of Africa Collective. As witnessed last [...]