What Do You Want From Me

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The Resort 2013 collection Oscar de la Renta showed is straightforward, well-conceived, and will certainly be easy on buyers looking to make good sell-throughs. The colors were vivid, but steady in a certain way that skewed a bit older than some of his more recent collections.

The show both opened and closed with ensembles in black and white, whilst groups of dresses and separates in cobalt, tomato red, and a green somewhere between kelly and emerald shone in between. The liquid gossamer silver looks were especially attractive, as was a bright floral watercolor print. Some of the other prints were less successful especially when shown in jacket, blouse and skirt of a look. Overall, there was plenty to like for a die-hard ODLR fan in need of new merch for her cruise season. -RS (Images via Vogue.com)

love the tartan gown

pak na pak!

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For her Spring 2013 Bridal presentation, Vera Wang sent a collection of entirely red, scarlet, rust and aubergine down the runway.  While I can’t imagine that ruffles of vermillion organza will be popping up on all that many brides, the show was quite striking and rather wonderful.

The silhouettes were kept to a select few- mermaid, trumpet and um.. princess(?)- which was a wise choice to balance the strong colors. VW’s construction and finishing are always flawless, and I love that she’s experimented with different directions of late (last season featured mostly black gowns).

The pops of black beading that crept along shoulders and waistlines I could have done without as they gave a bit of a Spanish flamenco costume look. However, overall the show was beautiful and striking. I’m sure they’ll have to set about letting brides order these in white and cream and champagne and such, but they were perfect for the runway show at least. I wonder if Vera was thinking about traditional Chinese wedding costume? -RS (Images via WWD)

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