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Narciso Rodriguez passes geometry with flying (bright) colors
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Narciso Rodriguez is a slasher extraordinaire—known for outfitting celebs like Julianna Margulies and Julia Louis-Dreyfuss in sleek, figure-hugging numbers with sexy, slashed cutouts. For fall, he loosens the silhouette, and offers no flashes of skin, but keeps things exciting with unexpected, diagonal color-blocking and slashed, angled hemlines.
There are no horizontal or vertical lines here....
Read more »Narciso Rodriguez gets everybody talking
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Narciso Rodriguez woke everybody up. It’s a little-known fact of Fashion Week that, like running a marathon, there comes a point when you hit the wall. Dress after dress after dress, bony model after bony model, ruffles and pleats and impossibly high heels. After a while, it’s hard to remember which designer showed what — or if you even liked whatever it was they showed.
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Read more »Narciso Rodriguez: Fold, slash, repeat.
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The Narciso Rodriguez Fall 2012 collection seems to be one of extremes—pieces are either sleek, smooth and almost inflated with air, or slashed, slit and jagged-edged, revealing warm pops of color (russet, Bordeaux, tangerine).
The very first item on the runway, a chartreuse bonded wool coat, falls into the former category, the texture like virgin snow, not a wrinkle or crinkle, and with a...
Read more »Red-hot start to Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week
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It was all about being in the red – a good thing – as Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week revved up on Wednesday night at The Heart Truth’s Red Dress Collection fashion show at the Hammerstein Ballroom. Here, celebs, clad, natch, in red designer dresses worked the runway for a wildly appreciative crowd to create awareness about women’s heart health. Models included “The Millionaire Matchmaker” Patti Stanger...
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