Fashion Week

The Mulleavy sisters are the winners of the CFDA award, and although that’s wonderful, the brighter the spotlight, the greater pressure there is – so when you create a buzz like the two sisters have done with Rodarte, you better live up to it. The Rodarte show stood out in new York, and in the front row were Natalie Portman, Elijah Wood and Diane Von Fustenberg, and members of the fashion royalty that usually don’t bother attending young designer shows

Diesel is mostly about denim–straight legs, skinny legs, dresses and shorts. The reason for a show at the Bryant Park tents is to preview everything else. Diesel’s spring collection for its Black Gold label, shown on the runway at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Monday, also included solider-style jackets with shimmery silver epaulets, sweatshirt-material genie pants, draped tank dresses and a bright aqua leather jacket. There were even dressy styles that were modeled after a men’s tuxedo–a blousoned shirtdress with a beaded tuxedo-shirt front was among the best.

Designer Thakoon Panichgul brought the art of seduction to his spring-summer fashion show Monday. The looks on the Thakoon runway had a playful–but sophisticated–naughtiness to them; prints like lipstick kisses and false eyelashes and chiffon gowns with pleated bodices…

A new creative director for Luca Luca doesn’t necessarily mean a drastic new direction for the fashion label. In his runway debut Monday at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, Raul Melgoza presented a spring collection that captured the shapely spirit of Luca Orlandi’s woman, but with even more emphasis on cut, fit and luxe fabrics…