Oscar de la Renta may be New York old guard, but he did his best to make Desirée Rogers and the rest of his audience today forget it, sending a few of his models out clutching iPads tucked into luxe leather covers, not to mention streaming the show live on Facebook. He s embraced twenty-first-century technology, to be sure, and there were a lot of toned young legs on display, courtesy of his of-the-moment forties-retro shorts. Still, things haven t changed all that much chez Oscar.
His clients will find new reasons to whip out the charge card in the collection s embellished jackets, accessorized here, as at Jason Wu, with jaunty straw boaters. And he might nab himself a few new ones with similar silhouettes cut from peppy, pieced denim or khaki. De la Renta amped up the prints and the embroideries—he s not one for fashion s latest preoccupation with minimalism.
Nowhere was that more true than in his evening offerings, which ranged from a narrow abstractly beaded black net column with cap sleeves to a corseted ball gown boasting voluminous point d esprit skirts, and in between, a nod to Cristobal Balenciaga in a black grommeted white dress that belled out below the waist.
