2011 Fall/Winter
Vera Wang
The parka, that high-fashion yet functional item, has a legion of proponents, both established and emerging, this New York fashion week. Vera Wang was the latest designer to warm up to the idea. Naturally, her parkas came luxe, with fox either lining the inside or decorating the outside of jackets. And, naturally, they came in black. And like many of her peers, she preferred to pair her parkas and vests with pieces of a more delicate persuasion—chiffon dresses mostly, or chiffon tops paired with skinny wool flannel pants made feminine by swags of knife-pleated fabric hanging from either hip. Pleats were the collection's other dominant motif. Wang showed pleated dresses for day and night in a variety of styles: short and long, shoulder- and décolletage-revealing, or high-necked and long-sleeved.Wang is clearly trying out a new direction—there was no jewelry and no clusters of crystal and tulle in today's show. But with all the focus on just two big ideas, you eventually missed the richness of some of this designer's former outings.
by.Nicole Phelps
style.com
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