Thoughts from the Dirty City

So I am way the fuck behind. Not only is New York Fashion week over, but the London shows just wrapped up as well and the Paris shows are starting. Ugh. I have been working on a few posts covering my thoughts on the New York showings. My plan was to break it up into a few posts. One of the stuff I liked, one of the stuff I hated and the other would be for shoes and such. After starting each I realized they were starting to read like War and Peace and there was no way I was ever really going to wrap them up. There is just way too many great (and terrible) designers out there. It was making me crazy…and the posts were going  no where. So I scraped all three and have decided to take an entirely different approach. I am just going to start randomly posting about the shows a few designers at a time. In no certain order…mostly just as I remember them or stumble upon them again. I will try to remember to post what city the shows were in and all that good stuff.

To kick it all off I am going to start with the bad. The really, really, really bad. Something is happening in the fashion world. Something very vexing. There is a new trend (there usually is) to replace last years legging debacle (thank LaLohan for that one). I’m not sure how to even phrase this. It seems that designers have decided that clothing is now optional in the fashion world. You heard me correctly. It seemed like every show I watched had at least one model strutting her stuff down the runway sans pants or nipples blazing (sometimes, god forbid, both). You know that old saying show leg or cleavage, never both. Well it seems the new rule should be pants or shirt, take your pick.

I know this probably makes me seem like a complete prude but I don’t care. Who, aside from Lady GaGa, leaves the house without pants? I know that lives and schedules get busier by the day, and we have to make sacrifices to squeeze it all in, but are we really going so far as to sacrifice pants? I mean really. I don’t know a single person that would feel comfortable walking down the street in any of these gettups.  And for the ladies contemplating such gettups, cudos to your for being so balsey and confident. Just don’t say I didn’t warn you when dudes start hitting you up for your hourly rate. Personally, I’m sticking with pants.

All images are from www.nymag.com
and are from the Spring 2010 New York Fashion Week. Designers listed from left to right: Tony Cohen, Thom Brown, Julian Louie, Donna Karan, Charlotte Ronsen, Carmen Marc Valvo.