Badgley Mischka - Runway - Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2014
I want the pink color to be... diffferent. Less dirty, perhaps? Or another color altogether? It looked rosier in person. The whole idea is nice, though, for sure.
Badgley Mischka - Runway - Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2014
See? So nice when shot through with gold. And beturbaned.
Badgley Mischka - Runway - Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2014
Shoulder pads go on the INSIDE.
Badgley Mischka - Runway - Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2014
Goodness, that's lovely. One of the Disneys, like say Bella Thorne, would easily wear that.
Reem Acra - Runway - Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2014
Katy Perry? I do like it. So festive. Like New Year's Eve is in your mind, before you actually go out and realize it's usually a shitshow anywhere except in your own living room.
Reem Acra - Runway - Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2014
What I like about this is how casual it looks despite being ostensibly formal.
Reem Acra - Runway - Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2014
Oh, lord. DON'T TEMPT PEOPLE.
Reem Acra - Runway - Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2014
I kind of want Lady Edith to wear this somewhere. She could splash into color, right?
Reem Acra - Runway - Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2014
I always want to say that Halle Berry's iconic "Monster's Ball" Oscars gown was Reem Acra, but it was Elie Saab. And yet this Reem Acra looks like it's trying to capture some of that essence, which only serves to ensure my confusion.
Reem Acra - Runway - Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2014
HIDEOUS. Just kidding.
Reem Acra - Runway - Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2014
That is crazy. These asymmetrical bodices too often make people look like their bits are in the wrong places.
Reem Acra - Runway - Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2014
I am blissing out on this coat, though.
Tory Burch - Runway - Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2014
Tory is evidently going super subtle with the patterns this season.
Tory Burch - Runway - Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2014
It's sort of fun though. I mean, it's at least LIVELY.
Pamella Roland - Runway - Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2014
I AM a sucker for purple.
Pamella Roland - Runway - Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2014
I am also a sucker for cool prints on cocktail dresses.
Pamella Roland - Runway - Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2014
I am NOT a sucker for pants under gowns. It's SO Alicia Keys 2004.
Pamella Roland - Runway - Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2014
This is great. Taylor Swift doesn't wear this line, but don't you think she'd work in that?
Pamella Roland - Runway - Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2014
COAT ALERT.
Marc By Marc Jacobs - Runway - Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2014
Marc by Marc Jacobs is rebranding itself as... wait for it... MBMJ. Marc never liked the other name, apparently, and so now he's chosen one that trips awkwardly off the tongue and sounds like something demanding a vaccine. One of his designers is Britain's Luella Bartley, who has some name recognition, but I'm not really feeling the aesthetic. As you'll see, there seems to be a shift toward something too edgy and fantastical for my tastes, and in a way that I don't really think jibes with the overall Marc Jacobs brand.
Marc By Marc Jacobs - Runway - Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2014
I mean, this is trying way, way too hard, and it doesn't converse with the outfit that came before it, or the next one.
Marc By Marc Jacobs - Runway - Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2014
That scarf is nuts, but also at least dramatic.
Marc By Marc Jacobs - Runway - Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2014
And then this looks like they took money from NASCAR.
Marc By Marc Jacobs - Runway - Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2014
Ugh.
Marc By Marc Jacobs - Runway - Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2014
This feels like something Little J would've done on Gossip Girl. In her early days, before all the eyeliner and bleach.
Marc By Marc Jacobs - Runway - Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2014
That's kind of dumpy. But it does at least feel like it has a foot in Marc by Marc and another foot in MBMJ. Rather than both feet in a pile of WHAT.
Marc By Marc Jacobs - Runway - Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2014
HERE IS THE PILE OF WHAT. I mean, come on. She's if Danica Patrick became a bandit.
Marc By Marc Jacobs - Runway - Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2014
"GRRR" is exactly how I feel.
Marc By Marc Jacobs - Runway - Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2014
Sigh.
Marc By Marc Jacobs - Runway - Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2014
I am not entirely sure how this person relates to the person who'd wear the previous getup. Maybe it's that person's more uptight older sibling.
Marc By Marc Jacobs - Runway - Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2014
STOP IT.
Proenza Schouler - Runway - Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2014
I feel like this would've been a more fun direction in which to go.
Proenza Schouler - Runway - Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2014
This whole thing is so much more polished, to me -- and granted, it's apples and oranges, because obviously Proenza isn't trying to achieve the same things MBMJ is. It's infinitely more soothing to me, though.
Proenza Schouler - Runway - Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2014
And that skirt is flat-out cute.