Fashion Week Trend: Over-the-Knee Boots

Fashion Week Trend: Over-the-Knee Boots by divadebbi

 

 

Chado Ralph Rucci
Fall 2013

Over-the-knee boots were a huge trend for Fall 2013 on the runways at Fashion Week.  I first noticed them at Ralph Rucci, where the instantly took 10 years off the clothes.  It's going to be fun to see how they are interpreted on 'The Street'. 

Ladylike will hopefully keep it from looking 'Lady of the Evening'.

xox,
DD

Chado Ralph Rucci: Fall 2013

Exquisite color mixing and this glimmering sequin tunic over sik
faille pants, brought audible gasps from the audience at Chado Ralph Rucci.
Collection photos courtesy of Style.com and Quintessence

Last Sunday evening's slush and chill did not deter the fashion world,  from attending Ralph Rucci's Fall 2013 show at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Lincoln Center.  Also in attendance, pens perched in hand in the front row, were Rucci's lovely loyal ladies, Deeda Blair, Susan Gutfreund, Martha Stewart and the always magnificent Iris Apfel, pictured below.

We had wonderful seats in the second row and I was delighted to find myself directly, behind my friends Jeffry Aronsson, President of Ralph Rucci, and his beautiful wife Wendy.  It was a joy to see Jeffry accepting many well earned congratulations after the show.

Vibrant colored Pologeorgis mink bolero's and full length coats delighted the audience in the opening of the show. Rucci is fanatic about perfect workmanship and exquisite details.  He is always thinking of the future and in his hands every ensemble feels completely fresh.

If the intent was to also to entice a younger customer, there was plenty to tempt her. Lace, sequins, mink, sable, feathers, leather, chiffon and silk faille are this artists tools and in his hands, fashion is elevated to something to be revered.

Here are some of my favorite looks from this outstanding collection.  My friend Q. from Quintessence Blog supplied the "rear view" shots, exemplifying just how exhilarating the clothes are, both coming and going...

Jenny Packham: Fall 2013

I love Mercedes-Benz NY Fashion Week. I will never pretend to be bored or jaded. I adore it all; the anticipation, the people watching and the intoxicating joy of seeing a magnificent show.

My perennial favorites are Chado Ralph Rucci, Naeem Khan, and J. Mendel.  I am adding another great, English Designer Jenny Packham to the list. 

Packham is a favorite of Kate Middleton and while her press notes said the collection was inspired by seventeenth-century Paris salons---"where strong-minded women met to discuss arts and culture, all I could think of was twenty first-century Kate.