New York Fashion Week

So NYFW kicked off the Fashion Week season last week Wednesday and I'm quite impressed with the make up styles and colour palettes being absolutely gorgeous!

There have been a few shows which I've really loved though, Victoria Beckham's being one of them and it really was a beautiful show.
Her design aesthetic is now much more noticeable. Dresses of course were the norm, with a colour palette that included the trusted black, shades of moss green, aubergine and reds. Suited for the slimmest or athletic of silhouettes though, the dresses were quite simple yet striking with enough minimal details to make them stand out and the coats even more so, taking on a military feel.

Victoria has also taken the time to grow her accessories range, naming a bag after her daughter Harper. These too, especially the bags (envelope clutches and fairly decent sized carry holds), were a great accompliment to her simple styles.

Below are a couple of my favourites.

P.S. I want that coat!

Another one of the shows I also really loved was Zac Posen, with supermodel Coco Rocha ending the show in a beautiful blue and black jacquard print gown and of course Coco looked gorgeous as usual.

I'm going to steal some critique from vogue.com though as they describe the collection in much more detail than I ever could right now - 'In an Imperial Japanese theme, gowns were folded like origami. Bodices and corsets were pleated and shaped into peplums and bustles, and skirts were exaggerated fishtails or voluminous parachutes. Sleeves exposed shoulders or folded around them like stiff wings.

The fabrics were heavy – jacquard and duchess satin - and embroidered with peonies and willow blossom, often in a few shades darker than the background or with gold or “Tokyo” red contrasting dramatically against black. Chiffon was occasionally used to act as a contrast to an embroidered sleeve or as a flowing skirt, as wispy as oriental incense. Colours were powerful and intense - opium red, peacock blue and violet - but also showed restrained elegance in fawn, mink, slate, orchid (a smoky pink), and slate grey.'

If you havent seen the collection, check out some images, but I'm sure you will get the idea.

The evening gowns were my favourite pieces, so simple and yet so extravagant at the same time. Figure hugging silhouettes with exaggerated fishtail bottoms as described above, and when the pieces were shown only once, these pieces made an excellent statement on the catwalk.

Again some of my favourite pieces.



Now bring on London Fashion Week!