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(14 Feb 2001) English/Nat

TITLE: NEW YORK FASHION (Cynthia Rowley/Betsey Johnson)
LOCATION: NEW YORK
DATE: 12/13 FEBRAURY, 2001

New York fashion week was awash with stark colours as top female designers CYNTHIA ROWLEY and BETSEY JOHNSON displayed their latest offerings to the fashion police.

Cynthia Rowley took her audience on a wild ride through a circus-inspired collection, full of clownish harlequin-pattern dresses, sequined elephant prints, and whimsical stockings with each leg a different colour. Evening dresses in sparkly nude-colored silk were Rowley's nod to costumes of trapeze artists.

Besides all the clown makeup and runway sight gags - including acrobats and jugglers - were some wearable pinstriped pantsuits, too. But for Rowley's customers, who are predominantly young and trendy, dresses printed with the word "surreal" are likely to be more their thing.

The BCBG show Monday night drew guests including STEPHEN BALDWIN, JILL HENNESSEY, FAMKE JANSSEN, ANNA PAQUIN and TERI HATCHER.

The collection, often considered a reliable harbinger of trends, interpreted fur, but in a faux version, fashioned most notably into mink vests. The show was heavy on halters, glittery fabrics and lots of leather, from dresses to corsets.

BETSEY JOHNSON's collection was in fashion terms, very Betsey Johnson, in the sense that the models were all transformed into the outrageous image of the fashion house queen.

"Basically I wanted a whole new closet of clothes. For me - and hopefully for many others as well" was the line Johnson was touting at the show.

The show was awash with a wide range of materials and stark colours. There was pink lace, denim knickers, green chiffon, blue lurex, orange wool cardigans, hot pink denim puff sleeves, turquoise cotton velveteen, red lurex, magenta taffeta jackets, fuchsia silk ruffle tops, and red cotton jackets.

Mick Jagger's eldest daughter ELIZABETH JAGGER graced the catwalk in an orange velvet embroidered tunic and donning a bright coloured unstructured high ponytail.

The models moved and behaved very much the same as the larger than life designer, as they jazzily sauntered down the catwalk.

However, there was a major difference. Johnson's trademark cartwheeling down the catwalk was left to the fashion designer herself at the end of the show.

After doing her usual twirl, she threw up the bunch of red roses over the whole cast of her look-a-likes.

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