Fashion

A quick, early report on the shows. In general, we noticed people went a little crazy, overdosing on the black is back thing.

Alexandre Herchcovitch: Fussy, not form-fitting and overly detailed clothes meant to convey a Renaissance princess. But?why? Badgley Mischka: A Badgley press rep lied and behaved badly in the process of not honoring the company's commitment to seat two people substituting for us. Then, they did seat someone falsely claiming to represent the Press we'd warned them about. As it turns out, it made no difference. As other papers have already noted, the show was a disaster.

BCBG Max Azria: Uncharacteristically colorless. Dull.

Dragana: As Henry Ford said about the Model T, "Any color you want as long as it's black." That said, there were a lot of classic, elegant, restrained clothes that are ideal for Upper East Side socialites. Sadly, the designer herself is an impressively boring interview subject.

Ellen Tracy: Attractive, wearable clothes in appealing patterns.

Gustavo Arango: Beautiful, sexy clothes for women comfortable with clothes cut very tight and sharply in the front, back and on the sides- basically everywhere.

Henry Jacobson: Jewish (presumably) designer shows almost Nazi-themed military garb for men.

Lewis Albert: Appealing debut from a Harvard senior. Lovely, super-saturated colors. A bit Oscar red-carpet looking, but still fetching. Simple, glam designs.

Oakley: Looks like the wardrobe for an all-female cast of The Matrix whose hair has been uniformly styled like a stretch of giant black dildoes. The dildoes drooped down onto the models bony shoulder blades, drawing attention away from the lime green dashes in the line's otherwise all black-and-gray color scheme.

Twinkle: Clothes only suited to a color-blind Slovenian peasant lass.

Zang Toi: Dresses and suits for your average, ordinary Russian billionaire's wife-but few others. Extreme. A return to big shoulders. Rather '80s.