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"Maybe it’s a reaction from that whole Fortuny moment, all that finely pleated silk that was so big at Lanvin," said Julie Gilhart, the fashion director for Barneys New York. Fortuny was the early 20th-century designer whose pleating technique has been carried on by a number of designers, its most famous Coach Handbags being Mary McFadden. "I think that designers loved the history of the look, but they wanted to mess it up a bit and make it more casual and more fine," Ms. Gilhart said.

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Added to such bold historical references is the recent undertone of minimalism in fashion. After so much embellishment in the early part of the decade, designers have now turned toward a more somber and neutral palette of black and white, with tonal embroideries that play to a more subtle effect. When executed in a vintage silhouette or fabric, Givenchy Handbags can run the risk of looking, well, old-fashioned. "There seems to be a danger in the heavy application of embellishments," said Luca Orlandi after he presented his Luca Luca collection, which included coats embroidered with strawberries. "We all have to learn how to restrain ourselves."

Charles Nolan found as much inspiration in a picture of his grandmother on her wedding day as one he took of a niece on the day of her first Communion, so he cast models from three generations, including his mother, in his show on Monday. The age of the woman he had in mind as he designed was not the point, he said; rather Lancel Handbags was the idea of dressing for an occasion in a determined and thoughtful way.

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Her point was borne out by the aural backdrops of so many shows, where in place of tame club remixes and mash-ups, there was an emphasis on early punk, the more playful bands of the 80’s like Tom Tom Club and the stylized tristesse of bands like OMD and Depeche Mode. There’s a lot of Louis Vuitton Handbags again, said Michel Gaubert, the French D.J., who was in New York to play for the Proenza Schouler and Michael Kors shows. But it’s new New Wave.

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It’s a well-established plot of the film and literary worlds, if not the actual one, that men live in fear of women. They fear being dumped, humiliated, punished and eventually addressing their wives as “Mommy.” And if men think about Prada Handbags, the sexual revolution may have brought them their share of chicks, but now, deep into middle age, they find themselves questioning their wives’ choice of percale or whether Miuccia Prada’s collection was really better than her last one.
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Fun has been the missing ingredient in fashion, and when I’m in an ornery mood, I like to blame the organizers of the CFDA/Vogue Fund for using large sums of money to encourage young designers to be serious and grown-up, and robbing the rest of us of the pleasures of seeing wayward youth. So, as the fall Alexander Wang Handbags collections began late last week and continued over the weekend, it was a delight to see so many young women, well, misbehaving.

The first culprit was Alice Roi, who opened her show on Saturday, the eve of her 30th birthday, with a head-clearing blast of rock and models in purplish Goth lip color and boxy-heeled Mary Janes that looked as if they’d have no trouble taking Marc Jacobs’s Mouse flats.

Ms. Roi has a knack for choosing feminine elements, like a Peter Pan collar, a sack dress or the small cape shoulder of a Red Riding Hood coat, and subverting them just enough so they don’t seem goody. She has a delicious sartorial joke sense that has grown more and more sophisticated.

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You can’t help feeling that if Ms. Roi were any more aware of contemporary life, its small disappointments and contingency plans (well, what if Ken is gay?), she would be doing stand-up or supplying Roz Chast with material for one of her cartoons. And what makes Ms. Roi more aware than many of her fashion sisters?

On Friday afternoon I went to see Ashleigh Verrier’s collection of Schiaparelli-inspired cape jackets and velvet evening tops with ruched sleeves. Cartier Handbags was lovely. Jenni Kayne, a California designer, also showing Friday, had soft skirts and cropped pants with hardy-looking jackets in leather and dark wools.

But these designers don’t have what Ms. Roi has: a unique world. And unless you go to the trouble to create a world, stocking it with characters and humor, you’ll always be limited to what you can observe rather than feel. On Saturday evening Lisa Mayock and Sophie Buhai of Vena Cava presented their Fake Handbags collection as a series of rooms inspired by their apartments, where they design their clothes. They also served drinks, which is always a good idea.

I’m having this flashback, said Julie Gilhart, the fashion director of Barneys New York, as I approached the bar. Do you remember when Luella Bartley showed that collection in London where all the models were drunk? I nodded. There was broken glass everywhere. That was Luella’s start.

This is a valuable lesson: One should always feel, when looking at Replica Handbags by young designers, that they know something about dressing that you don’t know. The Vena Cava designers displayed a smart sense of the dressy urban bohemian, with small-shouldered coats, funky prints, black gypsy head wraps and fantasist details like suspended necklines. Nothing looked sweet or innocent.

An hour later, in the gloom of the Players Club on Gramercy Park South, people were standing around for the start of a show by a British designer named Sue Stemp. A publicist approached Bill Cunningham, the photographer for The New York Times, who was leaning against a table, and asked if he wanted to go upstairs and photograph people as they received a 10-minute hit of oxygen from a new machine. Mr. Cunningham would have none of it though.

Jessica Joffe just did it, the publicist said. Who’s Jessica Joffe? The publicist looked stunned. She’s a girl about town, he said defensively. A few minutes later the show started. Actually, it was brilliant. The audience just sort of stepped back to clear a path for the models as they came gliding out in these cute Chinese-print minidresses, a hooded sweater over cream lace tap pants, and a fuzzy mohair minidress in pink and gray stripes.

This is purely suppositional, but it seemed that if the models had stepped any closer to the mostly male photographers, the guys would have died from fright. Also shown Saturday, Jasmin Shokrian’s randomly creased silk Louis Vuitton Handbags and dresses, with velvet or knit dickies, looked well conceived, but, in a way, that was their problem; they didn’t seem connected to flesh-and-blood reality. At Ruffian later that day, the designers Brian Wolk and Claude Morais showed fresh, super-wearable clothes based on Weimar Berlin, with an emphasis on ruching, and on elegant blouses as a new, casual alternative to evening dresses.

With a shift toward a mean sense of fun, Nicole Miller’s ladylike clothes looked out of step, and the Paris Hilton impersonator in the front row, self-consciously applying her lip gloss, was a distraction. I mean, the pretender who gave her autograph to little girls before the show wasn’t the real thing, right?

No, this isn’t 1993, when Marc Jacobs first plundered the flannel and layers that music-obsessed kids wore to see their favorite bands play in the chilly Pacific Northwest; when Kurt Cobain (alienated, awkward, heavily eyelined) and Courtney Love (baby-doll dresses, red lipstick slash) reigned as the slacker generation’s answer to John and Yoko; when Sofia Coppola was a fashion-magazine darling and Kate Moss was all over the runway. It’s 2006, but from the return of grunge to “Fake Handbags: The Diaries of Courtney Love” to Kate and Sofia’s monopoly on the media to makeup that references ravers, the 70’s or both, you’d probably never know it.
The avatars of Gen X are all grown-up — and ready to herald the year that marked their cultural coming-out. After all, even a generation that treasures irony over earnestness needs to wallow in a little nostalgia as it approaches middle age. “The early 90’s seemed like a more relaxed time,” says Daisy von Furth, who styled Sonic Youth’s iconic “Sugar Kane” video, set in Jacobs’s showroom and featuring his original grunge collection for Perry Ellis. “Replica Handbags was exciting. We thought maybe we could make a difference, even just fashionwise.”

The industry quivered with delight when Corinne Day first published photos of Kate Moss in all her skinny, ungroomed glory in The Face, and by 1993 that pared-down aesthetic had made it to the mainstream. Yet despite von Furth’s initial enthusiasm, she admits it took some adjusting to style’s new direction. Once, when working with Day, she had a trunkful of bright, ironic polo clothes for a Sonic Youth shoot with the notoriously gritty photographer. “Louis Vuitton Handbags was so embarrassing,” she says. “She practically took the clothes off her own back to put on the band.”

Valentino Handbags wasn’t just mall fashion that was in danger. “A lot of people say grunge killed makeup,” says Nars, the cosmetics wizard who worked the runways in those years. Makeup lived on — Nars used purple glitter at Anna Sui’s fall 1993 show — and those rave looks are back today, but in a more boardroom-friendly way.

Slacker makeup is now totally stylized: witness Chanel’s ubiquitous Black Satin polish, seen not on angry, alienated types but on Lindsay Lohan and Versace Handbags. But if 1993 redux doesn’t have the frisson of the underground, who cares? There’s comfort in familiarity. “I’m back again in love,” Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore once crooned. So are we. With 1993.

In 1999, around the time that Ms. Foley and Ms. Corinna thought of opening a store, they had their first knockoff experience. Ms. Foley was selling what you might call T-shirts at the flea market. She had taken her children’s old soccer jerseys, cut them up and crudely stitched them back together into fitted halter tops, with the seams showing on the outside. They were so popular that Ms. Foley started making them for a few stores, “until the stores realized they could make them for themselves for less.” Before she knew it, the reconstructed sports T-shirts were everywhere that summer.

Ms. Foley realized that if they did not give their company a sense of establishment by opening a store, and if they did not begin to wholesale their collections more seriously, no one would perceive Foley & Corinna as more than an incubator for other designers. So, when a landlord called to say that a former butcher’s shop at 108 Stanton Street had become available, Ms. Corinna rushed to sign the lease. The rent was about $3,500 a month, and there were constant expenses for upkeep, but she said they did not want to take out a loan or seek investors. The store, she said, worked for them — it was cheap, though for a reason. “We could hear the rats running across the ceiling like cavalry sometimes,” Ms. Foley said. “And we just put the music louder.” (They have since moved to 114 Stanton Street.) During their first year, Foley & Corinna sold $500,000 worth of clothes, a remarkable haul thanks, in part, to Ms. Corinna’s vintage business. That business thrives because most designers take ideas from the past, especially from vintage clothes, a fact that does not help the cause for copyright protection. Designers often send memos, for example, to vintage dealers describing what they are looking for each season, and so Ms.

Foley and Ms. Corinna usually knew what trends were going to turn up. They also saw how women gravitated to certain pieces in the store, but never bought them because the fits were outdated. “They were seeing something cool in it,” Ms. Foley said. “What is it?” The idea for the City Tote happened when a customer admired a tiny vintage foldover bag Ms. Corinna had unpacked. She decided not to sell it. Instead, she realized she could enlarge the bag and add a pocket and the handle, with knots at both ends. Foley & Corinna sells more than 1,000 of the bags each month. After the neighborhood, the fashion girls and the celebrities discovered Foley & Corinna, with its velvet chairs and chinoiserie wallpaper, Bloomingdale’s, Saks Fifth Avenue and Henri Bendel began to pick up the collection. Heidi Klum, the host of “Project Runway,” wore the label on the show; her stylist told Ms.

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NEW YORK — With Lady Gaga — fashion’s current favorite music star — facing off in mask and hat with Madonna’s black leather Mulberry Wallets, thigh-high boots and whisk of black lace, the two entertainers at the Marc Jacobs show expressed the spirit of today’s American fashion: escapism.
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The rest of the shows have mirrored the after-hours activities of New York’s spring/summer 2010 fashion week. Yves Saint Laurent Handbags defy the reality of poor sales at retail and the consumer’s un-ease at big spending in a shaky world. For a party, you need a dress. Or, for next season, more party dresses than seems reasonable.

In this setting, the Jacobs show was exceptional for its imagination, its attention to detail and its lyrical vision of a sweet summer.

“Life is a cabaret, all the world’s a stage — and everything is beautiful at the ballet!” Mr. Jacobs said backstage. But on the runway his deft mixing of forms, cultures and fashion references was much more intriguing than suggested by his litany of Mont Blanc Wallets.

Between the ballerina top knots and the wooden geisha shoes, a cascade of frills ran down the body, mostly in sweet Japanese girly colors like pink, white and ice blue.

But the designer knows how to dose the sugar with sharper effects, especially tailored khaki jackets, with a military feel, or open work coats. Broken down, the collection was much more practical than Designer Replica Handbags first seemed, though there was a touch of John Galliano’s magical madness in the froths of frills and a feeling of Rei Kawakubo in the skewered proportions. Finely stenciled patterns even recalled the work of Zandra Rhodes.

But the remix did not plunder other designers’ work. It was more a respectful bow to some masters, producing clothes with that touch of enchantment that makes for fine fashion.

“And I’m definitely ready for frills,” Madonna claimed.

Zac Posen seems ready to party like it is still 2007, before the economic tempest blew the world off course. It was 9 a.m. when theFake Handbags blasted the music and sent out highly colored, boldly patterned clothes, their thigh-high skirts perched above shoes fluttering with gazar bows. The outfits destined for the street, rather than the party circuit, were also high-profile: transparent vinyl raincoats with vivid colors underneath.

Perhaps in a world mesmerized by celebrity and the red carpet, there is mileage in permanent party clothes. But it is difficult not to see Zac Posen the brand as needing a reality check.

Donna Karan is at the other end of the spectrum: a designer with a sensible sensibility, whose collection of putty-colored Replica Handbags or curving jackets and slim skirts, all with textured surfaces, made for the most convincing collection the designer has done in a while.

“It is about appreciating the power and freedom of nature and bringing that emotion to the sophistication of life in the city,” Ms. Karan said. Those lofty thoughts, gleaned from watching the swell of the sea, added up to a wind-blown swoosh of fabric or the misty softness of a jersey dress.

Although the designer’s work often seems forced into an artistic mold, the Louis Vuitton Handbags had a sense of freedom, while accessories that ranged from a belt of coral sticks through a group of gauzy hats added up to an easy, urban elegance.

Carolina Herrera also looked to the elements, and especially to sunset colors like amber and violet and the sense that “everyone looks luminous” in glittering embellishment.

But in her search for vacation dreams, Ms. Herrera came up with an overwrought collection, where suits with fancy shorts seemed an unlikely combination and where an inspiration from woven Japanese bags seemed heavy-handed.

In her own person, the designer is the mistress of the elegant blouse and skirt. But there was too little of that simplicity among skirts sparkling with a mosaic of beading and mid-calf dresses with a lattice at the hips.

Thakoon Panichgul, one of American fashion’s bright hopes, was off on the escapist trail: supernaturally bright mixes of print and pattern. They were effective when one dress’s apron was layered over a different print. A general feeling of summer celebration permeated the collection. But the show became an echo chamber of designer influences, from the sari drapes of Balenciaga to the low-crop pants of Givenchy.

Carlos Miele does not need to go on a fashion vacation because he lives and works in Brazil. But instead of taking the easy route of displaying South American colors and prints, Mr. Miele focused on the handwork found in the favelas of his country. From pinwheels of stitches to what the designer called “dreadlocks” of embellishment on a curving vest, the collection, without being dramatically different, carried an emotional charge of clothes that have been touched by human hands.

Sophie Theallet found inspiration in early memories of Morocco, seen through her French eyes. But for the New York-based designer, there was not quite enough sense of the exotic in tailored caftan dresses nor in the dusty versions of spicy colors like saffron and paprika.

Ms.Theallet scored in her youthful interpretation of the full-skirted dresses, which she evolved from her 10 years working with Azzedine. Patterned with blurred vertical stripes and cinched at the waist, these were clothes that had no pretensions to party power — just pretty dresses for summer at home and away.