New York - Max Azria - the collection - has positioned itself since its debut nearly three years ago as the premier expression of Max and Lubov Azria's vision, with more luxurious fabrics and design sensibility, whereas BCBG is the group's contemporary, youthful line.However, fabrics aside, you'd be hard-pressed to find much difference between these two Spring 2009 collections. The crowded audience included Michelle Trachtenberg, Barbara Bush, Olympic gold medalists gymnast Nastia Liukin and swimmer Ryan Lochte. In the Bryant Park tents on Tuesday, Sept. 9, the Max Azria Spring 2009 collection posited that what women really need next spring are loose, draped jersey dresses, and lots of them.
Sound familiar? After the BCBG Max Azria show on Friday morning, this concept already seemed played out. The washed out collection of very plain draped jersey and crepe dresses, some with twist hems, others with asymmetrical hems that presented a longer section of a skirt layered over a shorter layer, came in safe neutral shades. With all the sand, beige, taupe and nude on the runway you'd think you were in a showroom picking out carpet samples for a Florida condo.
Fitted, cropped leather jackets provided a structured contrast to the floating dresses, while cotton knit short sleeved sweaters and bodysuits would be great to layer under pants or a skirt for the office, if only there were some to choose from aside from the resort-like tapered silk batiste pants or in the form of a jumpsuit.
Repetitious and dull, like many other collections shown thus far in New York, it added fuel to the grumblings by many fashion week attendees about the lack of fresh ideas on the Spring 2009 runways.
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