When we think of Spring, we don't usually think black and white. But given the Spring 09 collections, this might be about to change. An overwhelming

Obviously, ruffles are one of the big trends for Spring 09 - and this is just a sampling. They were at both the expected (Catherine Malandrino, Luella

...Because they were all over the New York runways for Spring. They came huge (Threeasfour, Jenni Kayne), they came small (DVF, Alexandre Herchcovitch

Now that New York's part of Spring 09 is over, we can start connecting the polka dots and thinking of the whole blur as a whole, maybe to great effect