Color Me Fall: A/W 2010 Features--COLORS!

While a great majority of fashion's great designers still showed an aggregate majority of grays and blacks, standout collections from Proenza Schouler, Peter Som, and Phillip Lim showed color is the word for autumn/winter 2010.

Proenza Schouler continued in moderation the bold prints they showed for Spring 2010, but with a winter update.  The collection began with a barrage of somber looking models painted with scarlet lips, pale foundation, and sheathed in dark plaids, blacks, greens, and fur.  Perhaps one of the most impressive parts of the beginning of the collection was the excess of wearable well designed outwear.  From updated toggle coats to a line of peacoats lined in dark black, navy, and green fur ending in a cheeky update of a fur trimmed letter jacket.  The collection moved into black and white prints splashed with bold splashes of blue , royal purple, and green.  Standount babydoll dresses bring to mind a dark moody tragically chic schoolgirl at University PS.  In total the collection was a continuing evolution of Jack and Lazaro's distinct aesthetic that has shot them to stardom.

Phillip Lim was one of a handful of designers who took the first tentative step out of the 80s and back into a more sophisticated decade--the late 70s.  Yet, unlike many of his compatriots Lim, as he usually does, was careful to make sure his designs were reinterpretations and inspirations of that great decade when disco rose and fell.  Lim's collection featured roomy pants very reminiscent of a Lauren Hutton in her prime.  The collection ended in a flourish of purple dresses that would fit right in on the floors of Studio 54.

Peter Som, how to begin.  Over the last decade Peter Som was a part of the young crop of designers that took the industry by storm.  Yet, it must be admitted that perhaps in the last few years Som's name has been overshadowed if only ever so slightly by other phenoms like Wang, Lim, and Wu--not anymore.  Som's A/W 2010 collection was the toast of New York.  The collection was a psychedelic trip through a winter that is nothing if not incredibly fun.  Som came out of the gate very cautiously with a fur coat showing signs of what the collection was to contain--the coat was lined with a wild green print while the blouse, skirt prints were incredibly complimentary.

On a side note, I apologize for me 2 week late posting on fashion week.  I recently started my first two internships both in fashion.  I'm not going to class and working internships 5 days a week.  I'm absolutely loving both!



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Want: Oak, Everything.

My last trip to New York was defined by my shopping extravaganza at Oak and Odin.  While I loved Odin I as absolutely floored by the beautiful unique variety of clothing at Oak.  The store is both simple and minimal and at the same time highly architectural in design.  I bought a four tanks and two pair of shorts after an incredibly pleasant experience with a salesperson.

If you know me at all you know I am absolutely obsessed with scouring the internet for menswear that is at once well designed, unique, and mildly affordable.  So one day after returning from New York in spring I went on Oak's website and was floored by the amount of merchandise they carry on their website.  It is one of the most comprehensive online stores I've ever seen.  The clothing is well styled and photographed, there are magazine quality clothing editorials, and they are constantly adding new clothes, shoes and accessories.

They carry everything from runway designers like Phillip Lim and Tim Hamilton to smaller startup lines like Wrath Arcane and Rochambeau.  The price point can sometimes be a bit high but the design is so worth it.  Perhaps you can't quite afford the Oak clothing?  Click the tab marked a.ok at the bottom of the right tab and you are shown their items with a lower price point!

I cannot express how much I love Oak and their ridiculous online store.  It is truly in a league of its own.

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