At the Gap presentation on Sunday afternoon, the first spring collection under creative director Patrick Robinson, power editors buzzed around drinking fruit punch and looking totally unfazed by the heat. After spending a summer away from the fashion scene, the clothes on the editors' backs looked shockingly good. I'm seeing a lot of summer looks still—gladiator heels, harem pants, paper-thin T-shirts (the 300-dollar variety that drape in a lovely way but pill the instant you touch them, god forbid you carry a handbag...

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At the Gap presentation on Sunday afternoon, the first spring collection under creative director Patrick Robinson, power editors buzzed around drinking fruit punch and looking totally unfazed by the heat. After spending a summer away from the fashion scene, the clothes on the editors' backs looked shockingly good. I'm seeing a lot of summer looks still—gladiator heels, harem pants, paper-thin T-shirts (the 300-dollar variety that drape in a lovely way but pill the instant you touch them, god forbid you carry a handbag...

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At the Gap presentation on Sunday afternoon, the first spring collection under creative director Patrick Robinson, power editors buzzed around drinking fruit punch and looking totally unfazed by the heat. After spending a summer away from the fashion scene, the clothes on the editors' backs looked shockingly good. I'm seeing a lot of summer looks still—gladiator heels, harem pants, paper-thin T-shirts (the 300-dollar variety that drape in a lovely way but pill the instant you touch them, god forbid you carry a handbag...

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When Gap Met Colette

At the Gap presentation on Sunday afternoon, the first spring
collection under creative director Patrick Robinson, power editors
buzzed around drinking fruit punch and looking totally unfazed by
the heat. After spending a summer away from the fashion scene, the
clothes on the editors’ backs looked shockingly good. I’m
seeing a lot of summer looks still—gladiator heels, harem pants,
paper-thin T-shirts (the 300-dollar variety that drape in a lovely
way but pill the instant you touch them, god forbid you carry a
handbag…

New York Fashion Week Kicks Off

New York Fashion Week’s Spring 2009 season kicked off today, and I’ll be your guide to the shows and parties in the next few days.

The biggest difference I’m noticing so far between fashion week in New York and fashion week in Paris—Paris, I have done for a few seasons now; New York, it’s my first time—is that New York is much more commercially sponsored…

Perfect Finish

The polish of the fifties and sixties returns-heres to you, Audrey Hepburn, Jackie O, and Mrs. Robinson