New York Fashion Week :: Milly [The ZOO]

Milly :: Fall 2006

French pop, fifties party dresses and gold chains. Milly is right, gold is necessary. Slim skirts are sophisticated and sexy. The image of a girl with a bow in her hair at her own birthday party comes to mind. With baby doll bibs, polka dots and chunky grain suit, the girl who Milly evokes has a bowl of freshly made Chex mix ready for the kids when they get home and looks like a Hollywood starlet while she is at work in her thick wool suit. The gold was everywhere. Chain linked belts, enormous buttons, retro print shift dresses.

For a surprise throw in an orange! No, not the fruit silly, the color. In Milly's palette pink, tan, black and white ruled the prints, a button down tangerine orange coat woke the attendees up like a glass of fresh-squeezed. Dress collars were trimmed by ruffling silk. Everything was double-breasted. There's almost nothing better than a backless dress (backs are so quietly sexy) and an enormous bow on a party dress.

But every party girl has a serious side. (Well, not every party girl.) With private university knit sweaters, this line was for a woman who entertains, gets down to business, and mills about the university grounds remembering that time she skipped class to run off to the beach with a boy she just met.

THANK GOD FOR: Putting the Milly print on shoes. COMMENTS: Is that girl's skirt made of icing? TRENDS: Those ruthlessly sheer tops, high-waisted trousers, and gold gold gold. [Xenia Viray] more...