Prada (designer: Miuccia Prada) RTW S/S 2012

Milan September 22, 2011 - She wouldn’t be sitting on the floor of a man’s apartment if he weren’t married, because contrary fall desperately in love with her at first sight - who doesn’t love a woman in a snazzy car? The hourglass rings one am, but that is all to early for a gal to go to bed: she won’t be beat for another three hours! Instead, she drinks some more champagne, flirting around in her swishing, pleated dresses.

http://nymag.com/fashion/fashionshows/2012/spring/main/europe/womenrunway/prada/

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Anna Sui SS 2012

New York September 14, 2011 - Rosie the Riveter has brought her devil-may-care looks to Gatsby’s lavish formals, spinning herself in pairs of disco pumps. She borrows her mother’s old lace ensembles yet her stars and stripes turn to hypnotic three-dimensional shapes, luring in the scintillating whispered movement of her cigarettes and head-wraps. She flutters into the warehouses of dotty gypsies, feeling indigenous to the irreverent life of rebels.

http://nymag.com/fashion/fashionshows/2012/spring/main/newyork/womenrunway/annasui/