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Fall Fashion: Runway Report
Our picks for the season's 10 hottest, most directional and most important trends.
POWER TRIP
It is the season for a strong, powerful and somewhat terrifying woman, with designers riffing on S&M dressing—complete with kinky props like riding crops at Dolce & Gabbana and truncheons at Dsquared—full-leather outfits, piles of zips, studs, black, high shine and, most notably, the return to a strong shoulder line. It isn’t created, thankfully, by circa 1980s shoulder pads. This go-round, it’s a more sophisticated take on a forceful shape, from persnickety little peaks at Gucci to Alber Elbaz’s pattern-making magic, which created a raised silhouette at Lanvin with a flick of the scissors.
DSQUARED Fall 2007. Photography by Peter Stigter.
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sp writes:
I'm not one of those PETA people, but the skins and furs I think don't look very good. They're more like '20s + stuff, not very now.
—posted August 24, 2007 at 9:18 p.m.
Carol G writes:
Fashion is available in every style, from the glamour of the chic 1920s influence to funky to furs--even wool
ensembles. Where does fashion start and what will be left to do in the next season? We have
it all!
—posted September 17, 2007 at 1 p.m.
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