neutral seasons, fashion week v miami

the fashion week cycle- well, it's kind of like Miami in a way, no one understands the seasons except the people who are really in the trenches. 

 

A few weeks ago wrapped New York Fashion Week. The collections were Fall/Winter 2011, that's like a whole warm season away for people up North. It's pretty bleak if you think about it, looking at clothes for the warm weather right at the beginning of winter and clothes for the cold weather right as it's finally starting to get above the 30s. Oh well, here we can just laugh at those people and pick the few collections that are actually applicable to us. 

 

It's another story for another post how exactly I finagled all these pictures (there are more to come- from first row at Cuban designer Narcisso Rodriquez and more) but it's worth nothing that there are all miami nice originals snapped with my iPhone. So, this fashion season is going to look a little different than the past, because I was there. Front and center, and now you will be too. 

Timo Wieland's collection was one of my absolute favorites, probably because it's basically weather neutral. This girl is chic. Her proportions are a little off-kilter a re-occurring theme. The textures were layered and the girl didn't look like a girl as much as an ambitious young woman. Ya dig?

This is the photo pit. I feel like people don't take enough pictures of the people taking pictures. What a sight. There is this crazy dude that has long hair and wears backwards baseball caps with purple fur coats who is basically the dictator of the pit. He arranges everyone perfectly, like a kind of mad circus conductor and everyone listens to him. Dude gets respect around there while he organizes that fire hazard. 

Here's Lincoln Center really, really early in the am, before the madness sets in. This was the second season that Fashion Week wasn't at Bryant Park and the Upper West Side location seriously kicks the Midtown location's booty.