3rd. World Fashion Geek: Black is the New Black @ Donna Karan; Zero+María Cornejo and Thom Browne

Three particular collections caught my attention today. All of them with different aesthetiques but with one thing in common: the use of black as a whole collection's foundation.

Alexander Wang already did it pretty successfully, and now we see Ms. Donna Karan, showing her eponymous collection with very feminine silhouettes, lots of black with some sparkles of gold, very few, and lots of texture. She played with fabrics, embroideries, appliques; it was a wide variety of textures worked on a black canvas that made such an interesting show.

Donna Karan - AW 2015-2016
Binx Walton modeling
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Donna Karan - AW 2015-2015
Josephine Le Tutour modeling
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Donna Karan - AW 2015-2016
Kendall Jenner modeling
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Donna Karan - AW 2015-2016
Yumi Lambert modeling
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Maria Cornejo opted this time for her already known volumes, well executed sparkles of red, extraordinary draping work with a very sweet Asian feel, and a rather ambivalent and very attractive approach for street and fashion editorials where surely these pieces will shine.
Ms. Cornejo never disappoints.

Zero + María Cornejo - AW 2015-2016
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Thom Browne showed a beautiful "black mournful extravaganza". As in Donna Karan there were a lot of textures. I particularly loved the distressed treatment he gave to some of the fabrics (cashmere and tweed on coats and jackets mainly) and those wonderful freaking hats that were designed by the marvelous British milliner Stephen Jones. Accesories were a bomb, those handbags...
The irony of putting "angel visions" at the back was a superb detail.
What an amazing show.