New York Fashion Week: Calvin Klein women
Calvin Klein’s designer, Francisco Costa, displayed his preference for minimalism during his women’s Fall 2009 runway show.
Jersey and silk dresses with asymmetrical forms and one-shoulder cuts, prominent seams on puzzle wool ensembles and coats, the mostly black collection featured architectural shapes and a slim silhouette.
The color palette - when it wasn’t black - ventured into ivory, forrest green, silver and gold.
Many dresses were cut with corners hanging down at the
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sides, some dresses had velvet inserts, some had holes and in between there was also a lovely paillette-embroidered lace dress.
Fall/winter 2009 sees jackets graced with giant buttons and pumps with a ball hanging out in the heel.
Francisco Costa’s Fall 2009 Calvin Klein collection was elegant and wearable showing some affectations for details which made every piece an individual one.
Attendees included actress Kate Beckinsale and the models Natalia Vodianova and Eva Mendes, who posed naked in a television ad for Calvin Klein’s Obsession fragrance.
