New York Fashion Week S/S 2012. Day 1.

What a delight the first show of the day was, BCBG Max Azria. It was a collection entirely of dresses, except for the two pairs of pants. The silk dresses in mustard, blues, corals and pops of neon swayed behind the models like there was a wind machine in front of them. The silk dresses were came in different lengths, some at the ankle and some a bit above the knee. They were colour blocked, layered, and featured the unexpected cutout. The necklines were crew and V and some hemlines asymmetric. There were art deco prints and pleated details in the random places, like the grey,white,black and coral number on Arizona that had pleating going entirely down the middle. EAch and every dress can transition from day to evening easily, thats properly why they were shown with clutches and the models' makeup a beautiful natural dewey coral and slicked back urban jungle simplistic hair.

The Richard Chai Love collection was casual and cool, with I think only one pair of heels in the whole collection. But the women's oxfords did have a slight wedge and by slight I mean half an inch. Loads of colours and prints layered over each other in the perfect way. It was a well styled collection, the mens trousers rolled to the ankles, patent oxfords on the girls with purple printed leaves, collared dress and their lips to match in a deep purple. It was a very masculine friendly collection, the pairing of the down striped trousers with the across striped knee length dress was so good. The black and striped blazer with the white sheer back I thought was absolute genius. Richard has an eye for mixing prints and colours and he's also hot too.

There were chicly dressed traveling gypsies on the runway at Nicholas K, the side swept hair, head scarves and rope being used as belts. But it was the layer that gave that "I never know when I'll be home again" effect. But there was also this grunge appeal with the shredded knitwear and leather pieces. I adored the dark grey cardigan with the attached piece that hung all the way down to the model's knee over the light grey layered dress with the  boots. The men's looks, cropped trousers with oversized cardigans. And shorts rolled up over thermals under them at knee length was so sexy. A guy that wears that can definitely buy me a drink. I wanted everything in the collection. These three shows have me a bit excited for what the week might have in store. Now I'm off to cause some trouble out at FNO's events.-your Dealer.