Antonio Berardi - Fall 2010

While watching the show, my first though was '50s era sleuth (think nancy drew) but then as the show went on I was surprised with how conservative the clothes were at the hemlines, but then when you look up many of the dresses just had completely sheer fabric taking away the conservativeness. Not something I would wear, but I really think that with an awesome bra in the same color as the dress (most were black) it could really work. The dresses were very sophisticated and I'm not excepting anyone under the age of 25 to be wearing any of these pieces anytime soon but I do hope that we'll be seeing some of the dresses in magazines and on celebrities.

As far as the not so great pieces go, there was a weird wannabe american apparel bodysuit with pants and everything made of stretchy black lace. Because really, who wants to be american apparel? Some rather bulky dyed fur coats, and I'm sure almost every look up there had been done before. Style.com references one of YSL's earlier collections, and of course they are right.

There were some cool things to though. Like in one long dress there was a slit down the front of one of the thighs which showed just enough skin without being obvious at all. There were some elegant velvet panels that blended right in as one of those details you have to really look for, and most of the clothes had very flattering cuts. There was an amazing red dress I'll be craving all winter that I'll put in the highlights section. Overall the collection was okay but not amazing.

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