Denim turned up all over the runways for spring 2010—in head-to-toe destroyed Depression Era looks at Ralph Lauren, luxe logo embroidered jackets and skirts at Louis Vuitton, frayed patchwork body con dresses at Hervé Léger, lingerie style bustiers at Jean Paul Gaultier, and matching his and hers trousers at Chanel. See all the images in the gallery below.
Ralph Lauren looked to Dust Bowl era workers—"the farmer, the cowboy, the pioneer woman" according to the show notes—for his spring 2010 collection.
As one can imagine, the theme translated loosely into a whole lot of denim—all mashed up in a variety of color washes and levels of destruction. Lauren showed destroyed denim boyfriend trousers paired with workwear shirts, menswear vests and newsboy hats; pinstriped three piece suites with T-strap Spectator pumps; and Holly Hobbie housewife dresses with tight bodices and flared skirts.
For evening there were sequined nightshirts and low-waisted flapper-style dresses. Perhaps a little harder to sell was a silver gown made to look like a pair of overalls. That said, Lauren's message was overall optimistic and a celebration of what is uniquely American.
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The Fall 2009 Ralph Lauren collection was all about mixing casual, accessible pieces with super luxe, formal ones. The color palette was pale, and predominately earthy, save for the occasional flashes of black or plum. Although Lauren has agreed not to use fur in his collections his shearling and feather pieces compensated in the texture department. Check out our video of the runway show, courtesy of Vidicom, and after, don't miss our runway gallery of each individual look.
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New York 02/20/09. Photos by Fernanda Calfat/Getty Images.
A friend of ours went to visit one of the designers of Mexican brand, TEAMO, and sent us this picture of one of their Spring 09 blouses. Buttoned-up and cropped to perfection, it got us thinking about how many blouses were styled this way on the Spring 09 runways. Crop tops we're written about, but the buttoned-up look is just now permeating in our minds. We remember seeing a similar look, right off the bat, at the Karen Walker show. It was similarly cropped but, in this case, floral. There were also fabulous examples of buttoned-up tops at Behnaz Sarafpour--these came with strong shoulders too. Tommy Hilfiger and Ralph Lauren both did it in creams with full fledged androgynous styling to boot. Even Marc Jacobs, as feminine as was his Spring 09 collection, kept things tidy with this look. 'Buttoned up', admittedly, is something we'll see every season but there seemed to be a plethora of examples this Spring. Just like the choice to tuck-in, buttoning up is a subtle yet marked trend in its own right.
To see that pink TEAMO blouse in action, click here.
Clockwise from top left:
Ralph Lauren Spring 2009
Proenza Schouler Spring 2009
House of Holland Spring 2009
Betsey Johnson Spring 2009
Round Sunglasses $240 @ Ralph Lauren
Princesse Tam-Tam
Fred Perry
David & Scotti
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