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Fashion Week

Inside Fashion Week: The Good the Bad and the Swag So Far

To use one of our new favorite phrases, Fashion Week is “many things.” Too many in fact, to capture in one blog post. But can we try? Day three is already here but we're still poring over the hits and misses of day one. Here's our take: The Wigs at Gary Graham: We got his vision for the clothes. But the beauty notes lost us at hello. What were those wigs? No, seriously. What were they? The Front Row at BCBG: Yet again, just as much to look at off the runway as a laundry list of “celebs” from Kelly Rowland to Jennifer Love Hewitt perched on the front row. Wellies at Organic by John Patrick: Rainy days just got an upgrade with these to-die-for lace up rain boots. Swimwear at Norma Kamali: We are too delighted that Kamali showed on the runway to complain about anything. But if we did, it would be to ask how those unforgiving cut-outs would translate on real women.

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Fashion News Roundup: NYT's Hearts Rodarte But Not Neighborhoodies, More From American Apparel, And The Dark Side Of Organic

New York Times Versus Neighborhoodies Versus Rodarte: When Rodarte released its New York Herald Tribune tee as a tribute to the cult-classic film Breathless, apparently they forgot the cliché that there are no new ideas. T-shirt underdogs Neighborhoodies had already been producing a near-exact doppleganger of the shirt for years-- minus the ghosted-out "Rodarte" text, of course. Neighborhoodies is now in a legal kerfuffle with The New York Times, but the Times may not have much of a case. We expect the newspaper giant to emerge from the conflict with no winnings and some bad press--as they say, no news is good news. {Racked} The Un-Cuddly Facts About Organic Cotton: Hipster mommies and daddies everywhere wouldn't dream about putting their little Emmett/Regina/Asbury in anything other than 100% pure organic cotton, but they may not realize that the kid's going to have a hell of a complex when he grows up. According to Time magazine, the insecticide restrictions necessitated by the "organic" label are putting babies in Africa at an even higher risk for Malaria, a disease that's already wreaking havoc on Uganda. Let's hope the newly-pregnant Stella McCartney avoids this trap....{Ecouterre}