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Zac Posen Fall 2010 Collection

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Zac Posen Pre-Fall 2010

Widdle Zac off on another flight of fancy.

Style.com pulls back the curtain:

"With recent developments like his lower-priced Z Spoke line and a Go International collaboration with Target, Zac Posen is feeling upbeat, and it showed in a vibrant pre-fall collection the designer described as "Lewis Carroll meets Paloma Picasso." The Alice in Wonderland part—a very popular fashion reference these days (presumably because we could all use a little escapism)—came through via Rosson Crow's prints. A pair of striking black swans decorated the hem of a red velvet column gown, and sweet running bunnies and toadstools dotted georgette dresses and intarsia sweaters. As for the Paloma influence? That was evident in the seventies-ish silk bow-front blouses, flaring trousers, and pleated knee-length skirts, not to mention the models' painted red lips. As always, the collection had a serious theatrical streak; Posen's basics came in carnation red and neon pink. But we can't think of a girl around who wouldn't like a little drama in her life in the form of the designer's black and ivory strapless crepe marocain gown."


We like it. It's a little goofy and nerdy, but then again, so is Zac. We're not all that crazy about the color story and some of the silhouettes and embellishments can look awfully dowdy, put there's a fun, breezy "key party in the '70s" feel about a lot of it and that tends to be Widdle Zac's thing.

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Zac Posen Spring 2010

Lighten up! It's just fashion!

Style.com pontificates:

"Whether it was because of financial pressures or because, as the designer explained, the smaller venue was better suited to the collection, it worked. As they say, change will do you good: Posen's clothes felt more youthful and looked like a lot more fun to wear than they have lately, starting with the opening series of little color-blocked dresses, some with sassy cutouts. Pieced together from shades of blue, the best of the bunch dipped low in front and came with a flirty flared skirt. He called it a twist dress, and you could picture some pretty young thing kicking up her heels in it on a crowded dance floor.

Posen remains a social guy at heart. There were a few suits, and while they didn't exactly look like afterthoughts, party clothes are where he really shines. For Spring, he played with prints both small-scale—on a sexy, asymmetric-neckline cocktail dress in a tiny pebble pattern, for example—and large (a tiger designed by downtown artist Rosson Crow looked ready to pounce off a man-killer of a halter gown). Here's one advantage to the 9 a.m. time slot Posen may not have envisioned: Now his social butterflies have time enough to call something in for tonight's round of parties."

Okay, we can't hide it: we kind of adored this collection. There's so much drab understatedness going on in fashion right now that if we had caps, we'd doff them to Cheeks Posen for keeping the "queen" in "fashion queen." We don't care about wearability or marketability when we look at them; they're just fun, from the Star Trek uniforms to the skinned muppets to the plastic see-through coats over party dresses to the lattice cutouts on the skirts and coats. They're the ugly-hot of clothes. We just want to be invited to a party where everyone dresses like this.

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