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New York Fashion Week photos, live blogging, runway highlights and celebrities.

Rag & Bone: Very English, very cool

The Fashion Week blizzard was really picking up — somehow pelting fashion’s faithful with snow, rain and face-stinging hail all at once — as the Rag & Bone show began on Friday.  And maybe because of all that wet ruckus outside the runway seemed an oasis of quiet and cool. 

The R&B blokes — Brit-born Marcus Wainwright and David Neville — sometimes churn out collections...

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Sophie Theallet: Dragonfly dreams

Dragonflies flitted over long, flowing silk gowns, with

Photo credit: Getty Images

French fashion designer Sophie Theallet has a remarkable ability to craft truly special pieces that appear both bohemian and classic in one swoop of her needle and thread. And this collection proves it. Playful, strong, diaphanous, all-out sexy — she juggles a lot of style elements and somehow comes up with a cohesive whole. (And a slew of must-have frocks for women of any age.)

She kicked...

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Rag & Bone: Desert dreams

Rag & Bone designers David Neville and Marcus Wainwright seemed to have a journey in mind — over the parched desert sands.  For those of you not quite ready to hit the Sahara, this collection may be the next best thing, perhaps because it’s not obviously desert-y.  You’ll find no safari jackets here, no tribal prints.

Instead, the boys drop hints about travel, and Africa, like...

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Rag & Bone’s blanket statement

It was English countryside melding stunningly with Indian spice at Rag & Bone’s show Friday night, where unexpected mixes of tweed, floral tapestries and clever riding blanket patterns worked seamlessly with rich, coppery metallics.

There were piles of layers – pants-skirts-sweaters-coats -- all in one look, yet, somehow the designers -- David Neville and Marcus Wainright – managed to...

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