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NARCISO RODRIGUEZ AW15'16 READY-TO-WEAR NEW YORK FASHION WEEK In all his years on the runway, Narciso Rodriguez has never once shown a platform. Tonight he went there. His spiked-heel shiny leather shoes turned the models, many of whom are around 6 feet to begin with, into willowy giants. Rodriguez was after a new silhouette, ultra-long and ...

TIA CIBANI AW15'16 READY-TO-WEAR NEW YORK FASHION WEEK The beautifully decrepit ballroom of the Hotel Wolcott was heavily perfumed with rose incense. It smelled like the inside of an antique jewelry box, the ring pillow stuffed with dried petals. A pianist played in the background, while models with hair piled high on their heads posed in ...

NANETTE LEPORE AW15'16 READY-TO-WEAR NEW YORK "I started off wanting to evoke a posh environment…a private women's club for women pushing the envelope and supporting each other," said Nanette Lepore after her show, where Arianna Huffington and SNL's Vanessa Bayer sat front-row. "I played into this fantasy of a fun girls' club where they're rebels, being ...

DELPOZO AW15'16 READY-TO-WEAR NEW YORK FASHION WEEK The human experience is filled with drama and richness—and why shouldn't there be clothes to match? Season after season since he was tapped to relaunch the Spanish house of Delpozo in 2012, designer Josep Font seems to wordlessly ask that question, and in response turn out fantastical prêt-à-couture ...

BAJA EAST AUTUMN/WINTER 2015-16 READY-TO-WEAR NEW YORK FASHION WEEK How big, commercially speaking, can a label selling itself as "ambisexual" be? Pretty damn big, as designers Scott Studenberg and John Targon see it. The pair (who cut their teeth working in sales for the likes of Lanvin and Céline, respectively) are casting a wide net with ...

BAJA EAST AUTUMN/WINTER 2015-16 READY-TO-WEAR NEW YORK FASHION WEEK How big, commercially speaking, can a label selling itself as "ambisexual" be? Pretty damn big, as designers Scott Studenberg and John Targon see it. The pair (who cut their teeth working in sales for the likes of Lanvin and Céline, respectively) are casting a wide net with ...