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

Jason Wu moves uptown

A model wears a design by Jason Wu

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Jason Wu has shown his collection downtown for the past few seasons but this time around he moved on up to Park Avenue to present his beautifully tailored, cohesive collection of sportswear and evening looks.

The irony of course, is that Wu, who famously dressed Michelle Obama for the inaugural ball twice, showed on Friday, in the very space where Oscar de la Renta, the go-to first lady guy...

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Oscar de la Renta: Oscar wild!

Fashion designer Oscar de la Renta watches as

Photo credit: AP

Perhaps the last thing you expect to see at an Oscar de la Renta runway is rubberized clothing – latex actually – but it was the first. A red latex tank, with a navy wool blazer and ivory pencil skirt – zoomed out onto de la Renta’s runway (Karlie Kloss wearing it). Youthful, fun (for goodness sakes, the models had neon streaks in their beehives!!) and supremely chic it heralded a beautiful, relevant...

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Oscar de la Renta's gardening tips

Oscar couldn’t have predicted the wind. Could he? The master designer Oscar de la Renta held his Spring 2012 runway show in a new location, leaving the East Side church where he’s shown for several years for his new showroom — a raw, painted-white-and-that’s-about-it industrial space in midtown. The lack of ambience encouraged all eyes to stay riveted to the clothes...and...

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