Photos by Patrick Butler
As New York Fashion Week kicks offs, the city starts to resemble a busy colony of bees. A swarm of editors, photographers, models, celebrities, and the like, descend on the island of Manhattan, buzzing around in their “yellow” cabs (queen bees, of course, are chauffeured in their black sedans) from venue to venue collecting information that, they hope, will make the quality of the New York fashion honeycomb a “sweeter” place to live in these hard times.
Simultaneously, the luxurious fabric selection of cashmere jersey, cashmere angora, and silk charmeuse, chiffon, and georgette were inspired by “ the ripple texture of an oyster shell”.
Modern chic athletic inspired cropped jackets utilized sculptural seaming and quilting techniques; charmeuse blouses with inverted pearl marrow-edged seaming that didn’t completely close to provide hints of the underneath skin; sculptural skirts that grazed the mid-thigh; and variations of silk, kite dresses.
