Fashion Week!

You may have guessed it since I sew clothing, but I LOVE watching fashion.  I don't necessarily prescribe to it, I don't own much that is 'in style' (I'd rather go for the 'timeless classic' and buy fewer things) but I love seeing what comes out of runway shows, maybe get some inspiration.
This week all the Spring lines have come out!  Now, it is still bloody hot here, so I haven't even given a thought to fall clothes, let alone spring, but I just wanted to make a few notes.

First off, I LOVED Anna Sui's Spring 2008 RTW.  I'm ALL about the ethnic look.  I loved her collection.  (Much better than her 'ethnic' disaster of a fall collection, imo). 

Here is a sprinkling of a few other things from other designers...
Philosophy had a few cute ethnic designs that I enjoyed
Malandrino was interesting.  I don't konw if I particularly liked the styles, but I liked some of the construction.  The chiffon overlays and the crochet/lace
Oscar De La Renta was pretty good too, I thought.  I liked the skirt design and most of the rest of the collection

I have to admit though, for the most part I didn't find much enjoyable in the Spring collections.  They were either really boring designs that they tried to hide is over the top prints or god awful ugly/unflattering designs in really boring colours.  Even some designers I usually like failed to impress me.  And, oh man, I'm sick of seeing Agyness everywere.  She drives me crazy.
Eh.  I'm more of a fall person anyway!

Fall2008 is a different matter.  I'm a huge fan of fall clothing.  I'm pleased to see that plaids and tweeds and a English country look are so popular, I've always loved it.

I'm a huge fan of Yves Saint Laurent's fall collection.  At first the pieces look a bit futuristic, but once you get past how he is trying to present them, you can see they are actually really good pieces.  I love that jacket with the blue sticking out.

I also have to say that Carolina Herrera OWNED the English country look.  Maybe a bit over the top in fact, but I enjoyed looking anyway :)

von Furstenburg had some good looks as well.  I really love the vintage inspired styles.  I got a bit tired the coats with the skinny belts over them.
Mizrahi also has a pretty decent collection
Derek Lam had a mixed collection, there were some good pieces, and there were some awful pieces.

BCBG looked like a spring collection.  You would have to live on the equator to be able to wear those things in fall.  Or Texas.

Nothing else much interesting.  I haven't looked through everything, so you might be tortured with another post later down the line, but I'm tired of sitting at the computer so....ta.  And here I was intending to workout this morning.  Bah.  I have a shopping trip to Hancock tomorrow so I needed some inspiration.

~Nikki