Fashion & Beauty

Designers spring forward into the future of fashion

On day four of fashion week, designers seem to be going back to the future as a space-age modernism tied together collections that are normally

Very different esthetics.

PHOTOS: CATHERINE MALANDRINO BLACK LABEL

PHOTOS: DEREK LAM

PHOTOS: DIANE VON FURSTENBERG

PHOTOS: DKNY

Victoria Beckham and Donna Karan both looked to the ’80s — Beckham to the heyday of Azzedine Alaia and Helmut Newton, Karan for her DKNY line to the body-conscious athleticism of workout culture and New York hip-hop — for a minimalist remix urban uniform.

PHOTOS: LELA ROSE

PHOTOS: THAKOON

PHOTOS: TRACY REESE

Derek Lam and Thakoon, for their parts, pulled arts and crafts into the 21st century. Lam reworked traditional plaids and leathers into patchwork dresses, and paired sweatshirt-shaped tops in quilted jersey with pencil skirts in heavy guipure lace. Thakoon turned flora and fauna wallpapers into peplumed A-line dresses and chiffon shirtdresses. Oversized pailettes figured in both collections.

Diane von Furstenberg loaded her gypset train of bohemian jetsetters onto a space shuttle and took them on an 80-day disco party from Marrakesh to Mars and back. For the ride, they donned sunset printed goddess gowns over pants, two-tone dayglo tunics and shantung shorts. Traditional Moroccan embroidery was replaced by chrome silver balls. Trip-tastic.

PHOTOS: VICTORIA BECKHAM

PHOTOS: Y-3

PHOTOS: ZAC POSEN