Louis Vuitton Fall 2012

Can you imagine a steam engine train pulling onto a runway, inside Paris’ Cour Carrée, with models deboarding in 19th century travel heritage inspired looks? And each with their own porter carrying luggage? Well, it happened – and in…

Isabel Marant Fall 2012

Annie, get your gun – we’re headed West! Only Isabel Marant can transform yoked cowboy shirts, leather gaucho pants, lace prairie blouses, and embroidered suede booties into an incredibly fresh, effortless, and all around covetable collection.…

MSGM Pre-Fall 2012

How fun and inspiring are these ensembles from emerging Italian brand MSGM? I’m loving the floral prints, metallic details, geometric patterns, tweed accents, bold use of colors, spiked heels, and glitter sunnies . . .…

Peter Pilotto Fall 2012

Striking prints, imaginative uses of color, and geometric “crossing lines” were the captivating highlights of the Peter Pilotto collection. Inspired by recent trips to Asia, Peter Pilotto and Christopher De Vos created patterns based on Japanese light trucks and Chinese…

Mary Katrantzou Fall 2012

Mary Katrantzou‘s quintessential lampshade-like silhouettes and trompe l’oeil prints have evolved tenfold for fall. Images of pencils, cutlery, coat hangers, old-fashioned typewriters, and circular telephone dials were digitally stamped atop structured dresses with knitted details…

Rodarte Fall 2012

Kate and Laura Mulleavy have done it again with another flawlessly romantic collection, this time influenced by the Australian Outback. 40s inspired silhouettes, crystal studded gowns, coats cinched with western belts, dresses in Aboriginal dotted…

Rag & Bone Fall 2012

Inspired by English tailoring and Indian textile, Marcus Wainwright and David Neville artfully carried out next season’s recurring theme of mixing patterns, colors, and textures into their fall collection for Rag & Bone. Asymmetrical skirts, pants, sweater dresses, vests,…

Gary Graham Fall 2012

Deconstructed jackets over finely knit sweaters on top of quilt printed dresses, all layered over two-tone, textured leg wear . . . Gary Graham‘s fall collection oddly makes perfect sense, and thus provides me with…