Dave Hogan/Getty ImagesAdele accepts her Best British Female Award from Kylie Minogue. Dave Hogan/Getty ImagesAdele attends the 2012 Brit Awards. On Tuesday, the Brit Awards, England’s version of the Grammys, fell near the end of London Fashion Week, and the first winner of the night, for best solo female artist, went to (no surprise) Adele. [...]

 

Stuart Emmrich/The New York Times.Fashion hopefuls at Somerset House. Never is the grim drabness of New York Fashion Week — from the corporate, auto-show-like setting of Lincoln Center to the drafty, soul-deadening showrooms along barren stretches of the Hudson River waterfront — more apparent than when you come to London Fashion Week for a few [...]

 

“Why me?” shouted the photographer, laden down with his equipment, as he was evicted from a crowded elevator by a security guard moments before the Jonathan Saunders show was scheduled to begin here in London on Sunday evening. Told he had brought the weight limit of the elevator over its recommended level and would have [...]

 

Ian Gavan/Getty ImagesChristopher Kane, fall 2012. Christopher Kane’s latest collection from London is truly worth obsessing over. By some magical combination of black leather, velvet and chiffon, he gives a three-dimensional quality to his patterns and textures. And he doesn’t overplay the technique. Most of his fall shapes are straightforward — boyish trousers and jackets, [...]

 

Valerio Mezzanotti/NowFashion.comProenza Schouler, fall 2012. IT’S easy to identify the best moment of Fashion Week. In the blacked-out setting for the Calvin Klein show on Thursday, the actresses Emma Stone (in red) and Rooney. Mara (in black) took their front-row places next to Emmanuelle Alt and Franca Sozzani, the editors respectively of French Vogue and [...]

Strict combinations of black and white emerged on the runways this week as a cooling counterpoint to the riotously clashing colors and patterns surfacing in so many shows. In some collections, the positive/negative looks carried a whiff of the hard-edged early 1960s (think Emma Peel), while in others it conjured still-earlier times. Designer’s reference points [...]

 

Hiroko Masuike for The New York TimesBackstage at Calvin Klein, fall 2012. The girl from “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” was at the show with the models whose hair looked like that of the girl from “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.” Did I just blow your mind? If not, the Calvin Klein collection [...]

 

Valerio Mezzanotti/NowFashion.comBrood, fall 2012. Brood, a new label started by Serkan Sarier in 2010, showed his fourth collection within the confines of Fashion Week this season, rather than waiting until everyone’s back from Paris, as he has in the past. He was ready for the challenge. Mr. Sarier, a former assistant to designers like Emanuel [...]

 

Valerio Mezzanotti/NowFashion.comRalph Lauren, fall 2012. The theme song from “Downton Abbey” set the tone for where Ralph Lauren was going this morning. Valerio Mezzanotti/NowFashion.comRalph Lauren. The look wasn’t exactly dowager countess, or anything like the scene in which the family reacts to Lady Sybil’s harem pants, but you got a hunting-in-the-moors feeling from Mr. Lauren’s [...]

“That was uplifting!” said an editor leaving the Proenza Schouler show on Wednesday night in Chelsea. Indeed. The fall shows have needed a good, solid jolt, and Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez did that with a terrific collection that had a number of influences. Backstage, the designers said they were interested in the idea of [...]

 

Stephen Chernin/Associated PressMarchesa, fall 2012. Illusion dresses that appear as if the sequins and lace were embroidered directly on the body are nothing new at Marchesa, but the designers Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig took a turn this season that you could call macabre, or you could call McQueen. A to-the-floor dress of panels of [...]

 

Lucas Jackson/ReutersAnna Sui, fall 2012. Anna Sui has been on a winning streak in her recent collections, with their divine color combinations and prints. The collection she showed on Wednesday might for New York Fashion Week have been a day late, but it was still so sweet it could have been a valentine. She started [...]

 

Prabal Gurung for ICB, fall 2012. Prabal Gurung showed his new collection for ICB today, not at Lincoln Center or some far-flung warehouse in Chelsea, but on my computer. Mr. Gurung is something of a guinea pig in a new venture by the public relations firm KCD, in which it is trying to persuade some [...]

 

Regis Colin / NowFashion.comMichael Kors, fall 2012. Waiting for the Michael Kors show this morning, I read a funny item in The Daily, a Fashion Week handout that is kind of like a fanzine to the editors of Condé Nast and Hearst. Graydon Carter, the Vanity Fair editor, is asked for his thoughts on the [...]

 

Stuart Emmrich/The New York TimesMinka Kelly at the Oscar de la Renta show. For some time, it has been obvious that Oscar de la Renta is a lot hipper than the rest of us. That was even more obvious when, at his show Tuesday evening, most of the editors in my section were having a [...]