And So It Begins...NY Fashion Week Fall 2011. Z-Spoke by Zac Posen

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NY Fashion Week has begun. I'd say by tomorrow I'll be knee-deep in collections and come Saturday I will have drowned. There is just so much to look at these days.

It’s been a long time since Zac Posen has designed a collection that hits the mark and I often wonder why he’s been flailing for the past few seasons. It’s not like he’s some geriatric 5th Avenue designer who’s out of touch yet so many of his latest collections have felt that way. Did you see the debut of Z-spoke last season? It was a style grenade. When he moved his main line to Paris last season he said something to the effect that Americans don’t get his style. Yeah, that didn’t help coz it was like no, your clothes are just really shit.
So I was shocked and delighted to see his latest effort for fall. It’s like sexy business wear for young vampire professionals. There were no vomit prints, no excessive ruffles or any of that old Hollywood bullshit that he’s done so awfully in the past. It had whiffs (I say whiffs. He’s not a fucking genius) of Ford and Saint Laurent but was current and to the point like, say, Theyskens Theory or Esteban Cortazar for Exito.
This is a great start to fashion week.

Esteban Cortazar x Exito

Esteban Cortazar has linked up with Colombian retail giant Exito and designed a capsule collection.
Estaban was last designing for Emanuel Ungaro but left amid reports he was forced to team up with Lindsay Lohan who would ‘consult’ for the brand, whatever that means. Cortazar quit and Estrella Archs tag-teamed with Lohan and that’s how pasties were, like invented.
The collection looks great but is derivative of Alexander Wang (the sweats, the hoodies, the tanks), Proenza Schouler (the high-waisted skirts) and even a bit of Helmut Lang.
I know that A Wang didn’t pioneer the tank top and PS the high-waisted skirt but Wang in particular really ‘owns’ these looks wouldn’t you say?
I never liked what he did at Ungaro and this is such a great departure from that and much more reflective of his 26 years of age.

Btw, where did Hanne Gaby Odiele come by such a giant forehead? I feel like we’re related.