The fact that there in the front row sat Julia Restoin-Roitfeld, daughter of former Vogue Paris editor Carine Roitfeld, left me in no doubt New York fashion week showing would have visual impact. Those in the front row, when carefully invited, often give a hint of precisely what's in store, and Julia sat there in a hot little shoulderless number that mixed mesh with leather.
take on the coming fall 2011 season is a collection of dresses, leathers, lace and sheers, and flares. All of them, even those that failed to work in the face of better pieces from the same collection, are heavily sexed up. Simplistic, perhaps even crass, to say but that's precisely what this collection is about.
Some pieces have micro short hems. Others are offered with trains that lashed behind the model as she pounded the catwalk. And between both cuts are some that are more demure in having floor length hems. But no matter the length of cut, it was clear that this is a collection all about defining precisely what a dress can be. In doing so it made it clear that this was a collection for women who simply have that it quality in abundance. The Restoin-Roitfelds of the world. The fashionisers with a rock-chic edge.
