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Rather than banking on the more ladylike elements of her aesthetic, the designer repeated the stark monochromes that marked last season’s sober affair.

Vera Wang looked to traditional fencing whites — with some help from the artists Alberto Giacometti and Amedeo Modigliani — to inform her Autumn collection.

"But what will Ms. Burch — who seems to have it all — move on to? 'She has already branded herself,' said Ms. Wang, the designer who made Ms. Burch's

"Inside the fishbowl of a lobby at Alice Tully Hall, where walls of glass offered a floor-to-ceiling view of guests arriving for the Council of

BoF editor-in-chief Imran Amed recaps the week in the business of fashion.