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New York Fashion Week embraces spring

US designers tried to lighten a dour national mood for their spring collections with a sunny palette of lighter lilac, marigold and teal

By Samantha Critchell  /  AP , NEW YORK

Furthering the good girl-bad girl theme that has been popular in the early going of Fashion Week, Reese offered an ideal leather-and-lace ensemble: a taupe-colored buttery leather jacket with appliques and a lace tiered skirt.

LELA ROSE

Lela Rose borrowed draping techniques from the headdresses of the African Mende tribe for dresses that blurred the line between funky global styles and cocktail attire for uptown girls.

One of the most interesting things to emerge from her runway show on Sunday at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week was a print Rose called “heat map” and looked like a satellite photo on Google Maps. It was an attractive navy and red print but also seemed like a social commentary about the world getting smaller.

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