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Friday March 15th, 2013

The Top Trends from the Fall 2013 Runways
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The Top Trends from the Fall 2013 Runways

Four cities, one season: Fall 2013. Nemo kicked the collections off and every city to follow added its own dose of wintry chill. Somehow all that cold weather caused a discernible note of restraint to float through the collections. Don’t worry–the passion and excitement were still there, but designers actively pursued defining new ways we can really dress next fall. These looks felt grounded in the return of the “Lady,” as fashion’s pendulum swung away from the risqué, toward the refreshingly refined (spike-studded shoulders be damned). Check out our top trends for fall in the slide show.

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Published at 5:59 PM

Saturday February 9th, 2013

Friday February 8th, 2013

Tess Giberson Fall 2013: The Real World
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Tess Giberson Fall 2013: The Real World

Some designers opt to romanticize these frigid winter months, offering up blissfully arctic fantasies filled with woolen hot-shorts and midriff baring mohair sweaters. Not Tess Giberson: she knows what’s up. As we made our way across the icy-wet tundra —or, the Westside Highway…you pick— to take in her presentation at Pier 59, we couldn’t help but take note of how even the most pap-happy editor was on pure sartorial survival mode today; this was no time to put “wow factor” before “warm factor”.

Giberson is on the same page for fall 2013, as her presentation could have walked right out of the all-white loft space into today’s precipitous chill (and we had no choice to upon its completion).

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