![]() ![]() Continuing a much longer-running Lepore tradition, at the end of the show, Nanette took her finale accolades on the runway with her daughter Violet. ![]() It could have been distracting, but instead just added to the festive mood. This time around it was the talented Sam Bisbee and his band, including two violinists and a cellist, performing on the runway behind the models. Just like last season, Lepore incorporated live music into the show. Aida was seated in the family section and gushed to us that Nanette Lepore's clothes are, "Different, exciting and sexy." Famous guests whom we spotted making their first appearance at a Lepore show included our Boy Meets Girl show savior, Angela Simmons and former Project Runway designer Austin Scarlett, who told us, "I love the colors." Discover the latest ready-to-wear, handbags, shoes and accessory collections, all inspired by the finesse of Italian. We spotted Lepore regulars Arianna Huffington, Kelly Rutherford, Carol Kane and Aida Turturro. The show was celeb filled, as the designer's shows always are. The collection took Nanette Lepore's signature looks and pushed their limits with color. They were unusual, striking and surprisingly pretty. Our favorite pieces, however, were the two-layer dresses: a layer of pastel net lace over one of solid neon. Even the soles of the models' shoes were fluorescent yellow, a fun spoof on Louboutin. And those pink, orange and yellow rainbow sherbet surfer hues just kept on coming-in feminine, but never delicate, sportswear and vintage inspired bathing suits. From the first look down the runway, a citron top with tangerine skirt, we were hooked. In a Fashion Week where colorful collections have been the norm, most pale in comparison to Nanette Lepore's neon designs for Spring 2012. And helping that happen was Elbaz's conviction that "modernity is beauty." Flip that formula, then think for a moment about how simple, timeless, and radical it is.Designer Nanette Lepore and her daughter Violet walk the runway. Here, the desire was more palpable than ever. He's always managed to bridge the gap by making things that women desire. Oppositions are fundamental to Elbaz, the most elementary being the reality of clothes versus the dream of fashion. Marchesa Runway Spring 2012 Mercedes Benz Fashion Week stock photos are available in a variety of sizes and formats to fit your needs. "I prefer strength." Against which he paraded sheer tulle dresses that conveyed a nothing-to-hide vulnerability. Browse Getty Images premium collection of high-quality, authentic Marchesa Runway Spring 2012 Mercedes Benz Fashion Week stock photos, royalty-free images, and pictures. It was a major contributor to the strength of the show, along with those shoulders, which he was quick to point out had nothing to do with eighties padded power dressing. In fact, this might have been the collection where Elbaz truly embraced sex. It was like that with all the slits, too. It created an urgent, unfinished, spontaneous mood, which was amplified by dresses that had ribbons or pleats pinned to them. One of the challenges he set himself was quite typical: How can a tracksuit work for evening? That's why he mixed the show up, daywear and dressier stuff wantonly intermingled. Lanvin has always been about The Dress, but this time, Elbaz tackled tops and bottoms. And when Karlie Kloss froze at the end of the catwalk in a halo of orange light? Case rests.īut all that aside, what Elbaz offered felt like his own pragmatic take on sportswear. The shoulders that gave the collection its epic silhouette could be the vestiges of wings. Still, if you let your mind go, you could imagine that the snakes coiled in appliqué across a dress or in a print down a pant leg were echoes of Down There. Before the show, he mentioned he had in mind an angel in hell, but as he drew and drew, the angel returned to earth. Alber Elbaz insists that, by the time he's subjected it to his design process, there is almost nothing recognizable left of the story with which he starts each new collection. 5 Through the Looking Glass The Best Looks from Milan Fashion Week: Spring 2012 See the best runway looks from Milan Fashion Week Spring 2012. ![]()
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