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New York Fashion Week - Fall 2010 Preview From the Shows

The following images were taken last week at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in New York City. These are some of my fav looks from the early shows. Top row, both are Farah Angsana; middle left, Richard Chai; middle right, BCBG Max Azria; bottom left, Mackage; bottom right, Richard Chai (all Getty Images). More to come...oh my!! I'll talk trends later. Right now I'm just going to post what's coming down the runway. Enjoy.

2010 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Models Hit Vegas, Fully Dressed.

Since Vegas is our hometown I thought it fun to show you what the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit models chose to wear here to launch the 2010 Swimsuit issue. Beautiful, even fully dressed. Which model's look do you like best?

Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in NYC Runs Feb. 11-18, 2010. Here's the schedule.

Fall fashions are coming, fall fashions are coming, this time NYC...wait...I don't want to rush spring and summer but I am curious.

Here's the schedule of shows. We mere mortal fashionistas can't go but I for one will be peeking. Stay tuned for what I dig up on a very fun week.

Miuccia Prada Says Designing for Real-Women's Bodies Too Hard?

NYPost.com recently reported that Miuccia Prada declined designing costumes for the extras in the Metropolitan Opera's upcoming production "Attila." She apparently found their real life figures too challenging and requested models instead.

How is it that a designer of this stature cannot come up with something for non-models? Surely she must be joking. It is not a challenge to make a beautiful, tall, slender woman look beautiful. We've all seen them in their ripped jeans and baggy tees...looking beautiful...not hard.

The challenge is to make amply proportioned women or simply a size 14- 16 (a fairly large majority of women in the world I imagine) look beautiful.

I'm sure we don't know the whole story but this tale does drive home the fact that the reason most fashions look beautiful in magazines is because the models themselves physically are. 

Dear readers, who have you found stepping up to the challenge and designing well for real women?