Elie Tahari can t help but bring a little fun to his designs, and so for Fall even a (relatively) sober tweed jacket and skinny black knit pants were finished off with an embellished obi belt for a wink of shine. You might be headed to the office, the look said, but that doesn t mean you have to be glum.
Keen on prints, Tahari showed patterns solo and matched every which way—leopard with floral, cherry blossoms on a checkerboard—but the mix was dashed-off enough to make it work. A pair of dresses with open sleeves at the show s end were fitted from the front and billowy from the back; although this is a Fall collection, they begged to be worn near a pool, with a cocktail, stat.
