My Fave Fall 2010 Shows

Fall shows, you ask? Oh, I read and looked online, but was not inspired to write due to the lovely shift in weather. 

But the good Lord knows you can't cover Resort Wear until you cover Fall - as backwards as that might sound... This time around I decided to just pick my top 2:

1) Marc Jacobs

Look one and two at right are my faves from Marc Jacobs' shows where he channeled a decade he is said to love - the fifties.

His models were smartly dressed in items finished to a T in that oh-so-50's-way, but in a more subtle, edgier manner that only Marc Jacobs can convey without trying too hard.

His neutral palette and use of the new long {trend alert on the new long: mark my words - long skirts, dresses, pants...} silhouette brought the fifties to the 21st century for a look that any woman can wear with confidence.

After several ok-ish seasons I am glad that Mr. Jacobs is back in stride with his talent. Can't wait to se what comes next - brava!

Want to see the show in  it's entirety? Watch the slide show here.

2) Dries Van Noten

 

Basically every single thing that came down this runway I wanted to own. It was not just for evening or for that one time you go to that one gallery opening where anything goes. Nope, these clothes are for every single day of our lives. Wearable. Chic. Timeless. With an edge. Ah, my favorite.

I diii-eeed when I saw the leopard scarf with just the right amount of sheen and leopard, not too your-grandma-in-Palm-Springs-leopard, but subtle and expensive looking.

So effortless, so chic. 

These clothes are def a do.

I'm generally against mixing patterns, but there is something about these mixes that just feels so right. Not too contrived or forced - just right. 

See the rest of Dries lovely looks here in the shows entirety.

I think Style.com says it best:

Freud's great unanswered question, "What does a woman want?" seems to be hanging over this round of collections, and it's already turned up some funny, off-beam stabbings around in the dark. Funny, that is, because isn't it obvious? What we want is a casual way of dressing that's also formal enough, new yet not ridiculously gimmicky, confident yet not egregiously aggressive, traditional in a comfortable way, yet also fresh in such a manner that we feel compelled to buy it. Well, let's hand it to Dries Van Noten for coming up with a personal squaring of all those apparently oh-so-difficult contradictions.

His collection was a serene piecing-together of classic menswear tailoring, washed-out military fabric, fifties and sixties ladylike shapes, and sweatshirting. The success was that he integrated all those elements in such simple, wearable ways that didn't scream "fashion."