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September 11, 2011, 6:16 pm

By ERIC WILSON

And they were wearing almost the same thing.

It wasn’t quite a fashion faux pas. Oscar de la Renta, who serenaded shoppers last week during Fashion’s Night Out, wore a khaki suit with a nicely tailored blue shirt, open at the collar. Valentino, who brought down the house at Carine Roitfeld’s party last night with his renditions of “My Way” and “Unforgettable,” wore a taupe-ish suit with a blue shirt and tie.

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For a moment, some of us across the way were hoping that their coordinated outfits meant that they might be planning a duet on Ms. Von Furstenberg’s runway, or possibly forming a new boy band.

Alas, Mr. de la Renta said, no. He hadn’t even heard about Valentino’s performance.

“Where was this?” he asked.

Oh, well. Ms. Von Furstenberg’s collection included a lot of simple floral prints on all manner of sportswear, the color-saturated sort that recalled Warhol paintings and Scandinavian textiles. Some of her outfits had little belts with pockets attached; a couple of others came with matching backpacks. Early in the show, there were two brown tweed dresses, one simply cut with an aqua collar, the other nicely draped, both of which suggested that Ms. Von Furstenberg, if she had to, could make a burlap sack look good.

At the end of the show, she took her bow with the designer Yvan Mispelaere and a handful of American flags, which she distributed to familiar faces throughout the audience.

September 11, 2011, 3:25 pm

By RUTH LAFERLA

Designers casting about for a credibly American fashion identity could do worse than to mine the sports arena. An influential cohort did just that, drawing inspiration from the locker room, the racetrack, sand and surf.

Last season’s fascination with athleticism made itself felt in an outcropping of varsity jackets and ever-reliable hoodies.

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This time, it took shape in leather mesh tees, jockey jerseys, channel-quilted moto jackets and stadium-worthy parkas.

Designers waving the sports flag included David Neville and Marcus Wainwright of Rag & Bone, whose runway show derived part of its sizzle from a series of electrically colorful ponchos. Joseph Altuzarra sent out techno fabric parkas and sporty windbreakers and a motocross jacket or two as well. Inspired by a summer in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Brian Wolk and Claude Morais of Ruffian saluted the racetrack with tank suits that were diagonally spliced with bands of pink, blue or green. Alexander Wang signaled his NASCAR inspiration with laser-cut mesh bombers and laser-sheared leather minis.

Even Jason Wu entered the game, albeit subtly, blending athletic mesh with, of all things, cloudlike drifts of sheer organza.

Okay, I didn’t see Valentino do his karaoke number at the Carine Roitfeld party tonight and maybe I’ll sleep better without that memory. Barneys gave the party, at a former strip club near the West Side Highway, across from Alexander Wang’s even bigger party at Pier 40. I got to the club right after the Joseph Altuzarra show and ran into Max Osterweis and Erin Beatty, the Suno designers. I knew Saturday would be a long day, and it was, starting at 9 a.m. with a tour of the hat exhibit that Stephen Jones has organized at the Bard Graduate Center on the Upper West Side. I saw a bunch of shows, had a good lunch with my friend Simon Ungless, dropped by to see Oscar de la Renta, who was watching the tennis match and casting models, and got locked out of the Christian Siriano show, though I managed to see the clothes backstage. That was around 5 p.m.

I beat it over to Mr. Wang’s show, which I found pretty interesting. He really didn’t mess around this season: athletic-influenced street clothes in mesh and chalky blue/black florals that might have started their journey to Pier 94 as Hawaiian prints. In my view, the best thing he did were loose, semi-transparent mini dresses that seemed based on athletic jerseys. And I had started the day by looking at Prince Albert’s enormous beaver top hat.

Anyhow, I stayed at the former strip club about an hour, or just long enough to see Ms. Roitfeld and Anna Dello Russo belt out a song, followed by Simon Doonan (in dark glasses) and then Pierre Casiraghi, who took the whole thing rather seriously considering it was a pantomime. Around 11 p.m., I went across the highway to the Wang party. A huge line of young people, mostly women, were waiting. Inside the pier, which was partly carpeted in moist Astroturf that squished under my feet, some of the models were chugging extra-large cans of beer. The dancing had started and people were waving glow sticks that said “M.A.C.” It got crowded pretty quickly. Some waiters were passing around trays of Jello shots, and I saw Mr. Wang grab a couple, down them and dance off. The shots looked like beef consommé. If there was a dominant look among the women it was shorts or some kind of a cut-out mini dress with chunky black booties.

Around midnight, I went back across the road and ran into Eric Wilson, who told me about Valentino. There were a lot of women in black mini dresses climbing out of taxis. Then we saw Mr. Altuzarra, who was heading to the Wang party. I told him I enjoyed his show. In fact, it was loaded with a lot of great pieces slightly suppressed under an air of toughness—padded black leather jackets, sleek white pants suits, electric surfer prints.

The next time I looked at my watch I was in a taxi flying up Eighth Avenue. It was Sept. 11, my birthday.

September 11, 2011, 1:10 pm

By ERIC WILSON

The atmosphere before Victoria Beckham’s runway show at Astor Hall in the New York Public Library Sunday morning was somber, with the lights dimmed and some guests noting the queasiness of getting on with the business of Fashion Week, even as the 9/11 memorial services were taking place downtown.

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Ms. Beckham did away with her customary routine of narrating each look during the show, though you could still hear her say, “I’d like to start by thanking everyone,” just before the music cut her off.

The news from her spring collection, which included the usual array of body-contoured dresses, was the use of thick grosgrain straps with metal hardware along the neckline, which, according her press notes, “reinforces a fresh functionality within the collection.” I have no idea what fresh function they could possibly serve, besides holding up the dress. The straps made the dresses appear less expensive than they really should, given Ms. Beckham’s taste in fabrics.

Her coats, however, were gorgeous, including a navy topper with a side zip, worn with over-the-knee black boots, and a rounded shoulder jacket that gave the impression of a bomber in couture-grade double-face silk. There was a white anorak, too, in a stiff papery fabric that looked devastatingly delicate.

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Here is something you do not expect to see at a Prabal Gurung fashion show: Nicki Minaj, the colorful hip-hop star who gives Lady Gaga a run for her money in the outrageous attire department, making a slow entrance with John Demsey, the carefully groomed, straight-faced Estée Lauder executive, and followed by an entourage of men wearing black T-shirts that said “$WAG.” Ms. Minaj, who will appear in a new MAC Viva Glam campaign, wore a bikini top that was half hot pink and half purple, some crazy graffiti-covered tights, a silver ballerina skirt and, in her big curly blonde hair, an iridescent pink bow that matched the chain of her necklace that had attached to it a hot pink pendant in the shape of a pretzel.

I was afraid to ask what that was all about, but what choice did I have? This was obviously a major fashion moment, people, or possibly a promotion for the new Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Ballet.

She mentioned someone from Japan, and someone named Giuseppe (Zanotti, I’d presume) and “some stuff I threw together.”

What’s this got to do with Prabal? Ms. Minaj’s stylist introduced her to the designer, it turns out, and she liked his collection.

“He has purple, you know, and that’s my color,” she said.

She sat between Mr. Demsey and Elettra Weidemann, and I also saw Amanda Seyfried and the younger Barbara Bush. Weirdly enough, once the show started, Ms. Minaj was the only one who seemed to be in the right place.

Mr. Gurung had been looking at the fetishistic work of the Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki when he came up with dresses in visceral combinations of black and white panels, made with harness details or sheer netting along their backs, and also some gowns and a coat that were stitched with riots of brightly colored bits of tulle, sequins and feathers, tossed about as if they were confetti. It was a flashy look for Mr. Gurung, but one that seemed to go over well in the front row.

Backstage, I saw Grace Coddington, in a banana-print Prada top, carrying a leopard-print umbrella that matched her sandals. Mr. Gurung, in a white T-shirt with the sleeves pushed up over his shoulders, actually did a curtsy. Robbie Myers, the editor-in-chief of Elle, on her way out, told me that the show set the bar for the week.

September 10, 2011, 9:06 pm

By ERIC WILSON

Mesh was a strong look at Alexander Wang’s show this afternoon, held in his usual space on a pier on the West Side Highway, seen in the loose-fitting parkas, bombers and anoraks that opened the collection in an inky color he called “petrol.” They were shown over bright blue and orange polo shirts in technical fabrics that constituted Mr. Wang’s nod to the color trend of the season. It’s nice to see several designers continuing to show sporty jackets for spring, reprising a dominant look from the fall collections. Fashion has been moving so fast these days, I was half afraid they would have already moved on to something else.

Mr. Wang’s show was staged in the round, or more accurately, a square, with the audience in bleachers facing a hall of mirrors that blocked their view from whatever was on the other side. Evidently, Linda Evangelista was over there somewhere, and I was sorry to have missed her.

The utilitarian streetwear edge of his recent collections could be seen here in several cargo looks made in parachute fabrics, and graphic botanical print bodysuits, some traced with chevron patterns, that made the models appear as if they wore scuba gear.

Up next, Scott Sternberg of Band of Outsiders also showed a great, and concise, collection for his women’s labels, called Boy and girl, before an audience that included Solange Knowles and Kevin McHale and Ryan Murphy from “Glee.”

Mr. Sternberg moved away from the hyper-preppy sportswear look of past seasons, instead showing crisp cotton shirts and skirts worn with criss-cross suspenders. He also had some nifty long peasant dresses and a paper-thin trench in a faded toile print that looked like old wallpaper. The fabric looked as if it were bleached at the top and scorched at the bottom. On the shorter side: a pair of skirts seemed to be a funny twist on the old bandage skirts of Herve Leger. Mr. Sternberg’s were made of black belts or wide suspenders that had been sewn together in strips.

At the end of the show, held in a parking lot under the High Line in Chelsea, confetti machines sprayed candy wrappers and proverbs from fortune cookies on the models as they made their exits. The one I picked up said, “She who shoots Band of Outsiders dress will receive many reward. Especially if it’s a cover.”