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New YORK FASHION WEEK CONTINUES...BY INDIGO CLARKE


Models outside Rodarte

DAY 5

Day FIVE and barely alive... It's 5am and I'm just finishing up, this week's been a killer.
Thank goodness for inspiring shows today!! I'll just go into the best moments... RODARTE! Yes! I loved every minute of the show. This season, the Mulleavy sisters took a trip out to the country, David Hamilton fresh-faced prairie style, by way of Seventies Laura Ashley – and it was a nostalgic journey well-worth taking.


The catwalk at Rodarte


Warm, pure, sunlit hues took to the catwalk – yellow, soft ochre, washed-out peach, bone and cornflower blue made up the optimistic palette, at times broken up by graphic black and white print. The soundtrack – a genuine twanging ‘country’ guitar with equally twanging male vocals, really took the nouveau-prairie ensembles into an imagined rural context where fields of daisies and straw-bales, blue skies and fluffy white clouds came immediately to mind. Dainty without being stuffy, dresses and full skirts in antique-feel crochet, cotton and chiffon fell to mid-calf, and the textures throughout were earthy, featuring cosy, hand-crafted details including geometric paneling, and grandpa knits added to the overall lived-in attitude.




More from the catwalk at Rodarte


Then came Marc by Marc Jacobs and of course, I loved that too - it was firmly footed in the sexy, sultry Seventies. The first look on the catwalk said it all – a blazing copper-gold leather blazer atop a rusty metallic satin blouse, paired with herringbone trousers and lace-up oxfords. Wow. And the easy-breezy blown-out hair on the fresh-faced models wearing the luscious disco-by-day ensembles exuded an earthy-glam vision of perfection that you couldn't help but want to be a part of. There was also an early Eighties edge throughout, that brought to mind punk-rock heroine Blondie – and suggested a potential return to a more strict Eighties New York style for spring.


The catwalk at Marc by Marc Jacobs


Following that amazingness, I hotfooted it over to Charlotte Dellal's shoe launch at Bergdorf Goodman's to hang out with her and one of my dearest friends, her PR wonder-girl, Sara Byworth (née Forage). I had one little cocktail and then had to decline the lovely offer of dinner with them both, and Charlotte's gorgeous mother Andrea, at their penthouse to get into bed Nanna-style and write my reviews. Oh the life of a fashion journalist - not actually that sexy!


Charlotte Dellal's shoe launch at Bergdorf Goodman

Okay, now time to hit the hay, I'll let you know how day 6 treats me!
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Contributors


JESSIE WEISS, WRITER
Jessica Weiss is the voice behind Germany’s biggest fashion blog LesMads. Since it’s conception in 2007, Berlin based LesMads has won the prestigious ‘Lead Award’ for Best Weblog 2010. Jessica will be bringing us the latest in style news and her hot picks from farfetch.com.


TOM STUBBS, WRITER
Tom Stubbs is a stylist and writer who works for Sunday Times Style, The Rake, The Quarterly, FT How To Spend It, and Finch’s Quarterly. He also writes his own blog www.styleanderror.co.uk. Stubbs is our menswear fashion week correspondent.


INDIGO CLARKE, WRITER
Writer Indigo Clarke is Fashion Features Editor for Lula Magazine UK, Editor at Large for Oyster Magazine AUS, Contributing Features Editor for Russh Magazine AUS, Correspondent for Harper’s Bazaar AUS and also writes features for AnOther Magazine UK, Plastique Magazine UK and The Melbourne Age Newspaper. Reporting from the big apple, Indigo brings us the front row news as our New York Fashion Week correspondent.

VIOLAINE BERNARD, WRITER
Violaine is Fashion Editor of new quarterly style magazine Velour, each season she brings us the latest activity from London Fashion Week.

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