FUR, fur, everywhere!
The fuzzy stuff’s shown up in almost every show at New York Fashion Week this season – but never with the abundance that was on display yesterday.
Baby Phat had pretty pelts, as did Matthew Williamson, Vera Wang (loved the cape!) and Anna Sui.
And in his brilliant, energetic show yesterday morning, Michael Kors practically drowned his beautiful, bronzed models in it.
Whether they were wearing holey jeans, a gold sequin-kissed cocktail dress or a bold navy officer’s coat, almost every Kors gal wore fur in the form of a stole, bolero, shearling coat, vest, or, in the case of Karolina Kurkova, a huge fringed lavender mink poncho.
Even Kors jeans were hemmed with five inches of fox.
(That big crash you just heard was the PETA people fainting into their plates of scrambled tofu.)
High-end fur pieces were flying left and right at famed furrier Gilles Mendel’s amazing J. Mendel show.
This is a man who can do amazing things with pelts – Mendel is credited with being the one to pioneer sheared mink – so it’s no surprise that the furs were just beyond.
But it was a pleasant surprise that his debut ready-to-wear collection was just as great looking. (It will be a crime if someone doesn’t show up for the Oscars in one of Mendel’s delicate crepe satin gowns with silk ribbon details.)
Alas, the same cannot be said for John Varvatos.
Varvatos also debuted his new womenswear collection this season – to the most disinterested crowd of fashion people I have honestly ever seen.
It’s not that Varvatos’ women’s things were terrible. The clothes weren’t really all that bad: Just very boring.
Quite honestly, with Kenneth Cole in the picture (another successful designer who started a women’s line later in his career and is still ironing out the kinks), there’s just no reason for them.