Lady Gaga powered down the runway for design
legend Marc Jacobs in a triumphant finale to New York Fashion Week Thursday,
showcasing a Gothic fantasy of oversized coats, full skirts and teetering
platforms.
Jacobs, the darling of the US fashion scene, prides himself on
closing out
the biannual Big Apple fashion bonanza by putting on extravagant
spectaculars
— and his fall/winter collection was no exception.
He turned the Park Avenue Armory into a circular catwalk bathed in white,
providing a dramatic backdrop to his meditation on black and all things
Gothic, accentuated by incredible lace-up platform boots.
Lady Gaga walked the show with professional models just days after
donning
a Jacobs costume in her flamboyant tribute performance to the late David
Bowie
at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Monday.
The pop diva wore a pale green pussy bow blouse with a giant, oversized
black coat with huge fur patches on the sleeves. Her blonde hair was crimped
in rigid waves.
The designer shored up his reputation as the most cutting edge, daring
fashion mind in contemporary America, offering up a loose, oversized look of
baggy pants, full skirts and lace detail at the neck.
It was a dark and brooding show, emphasized by heavy black eye makeup and
fur accessories in the look that kept the slender form of his girls almost
hidden in the giant clothes.
His models sported checks and there was a luxurious chessboard train,
as
well as plastic-looking black skirts with lace-effect cut out, and frayed
hems. Splashes of purple came on small bags and his towering boots.
Francisco Costa, the Brazilian creative director at Calvin Klein, used a
sun-drenched Tribeca loft to showcase New York cool — the look that defines
the label and pioneers contemporary, urban fashion.
“It’s the night before the morning after,” Costa told AFP backstage,
summing up the theme of the collection. It marked a return to tailored
suiting
for the brand, as well as novel use of fur for Calvin Klein.
Costa said he took brand innovation further by “pushing it into crazy,
very
fun prints as well, which is all photographic, is all very new to us.”
The night
before the morning after. Models hit the runway for the grand finale.
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PSTSharp suits were worn with low-cut V-neck slip blouses in silk and he
followed a trend also seen on the catwalk at Vera Wang and Alexander Wang by
using buckle and strap accessories.
There were large fur collars, another key trend of the season, and
leather
panels cut into skirts to create movement.Plaids were mixed and matched — with different check patterns used
on the
two sleeves of a dress, a third plaid on the front and yet another on the
back. Fur coats were chunky with textured panels.In a slight break with the usual Calvin Klein look, Costa incorporated
oversized tribal-style pendant necklaces and sewed large jewels onto the
front
of silk dresses. The models wore sensible loafers. (AFP)