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Models present creations during the recently concluded New York Fashion Week. [Photo/Agencies] |
With London Fashion Week kicking off on Friday, here are 10 top trends New York offered this season. Jennie Matthew reports.
New York Fashion Week wrapped up on Wednesday in an explosion of glowing colors, greater inroads into diversity, designers still pondering the point of the runway and younger talent given a chance to shine.
As the global style bandwagon now flits to Europe, with London Fashion Week kicking off on Friday before moving onto Milan and Paris, here are 10 top trends New York offered this season:
1990s throwback
Tom Ford kicked off the week by going back to his Gucci heyday, mining for inspiration the decade that made him famous. There were plenty of low-slung pants, hip-grazing cut-out bodysuits and boxy jackets.
Italian label GCDS also went for low-slung and bodysuits, while Oscar de la Renta and Victoria Beckham showed oversized jackets.
Oh, and 1990s supermodel Cindy Crawford officially passed the baton to the next generation－her 16-year-old daughter Kaia Gerber made her runway debut for the Calvin Klein, Alexander Wang and Marc Jacobs.
