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    Cliff Notes

    Alexander Wang and Prabal Gurung fade to black (and white) in edgy NY fashionweek shows

    Clifford Pugh
    Sep 9, 2012 | 6:30 am
    • Models at the Alexander Wang show wore tank tops of molded cable knit withboard shorts of eyelet embroidery
    • Model Joan Smalls leads the brigade of models dressed in white at the close ofthe Prabal Gurung show
      Photo by Brian Ach/Getty Images
    • Alexander Wang' s collection included models in intricately constructed blackdresses.
      Photo by Fernanda Calfat/Getty Images for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week
    • Models in the Alexander Wang show wore minimal makeup; their hair was parted inthe middle with a white or black stripe of tape added at the part.

    NEW YORK — Many shows during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week are light and airy. But two of America's hottest young designers —Alexander Wang and Prabal Gurung — went over to the dark side in dueling un-spring-like collections held in dank warehouses wedged between the West Side Highway and the Hudson River Saturday.

    Gurung, who normally shows his collection in the window-filled lobby of an ultra-modern building, chose Pier 57, an unairconditioned warehouse with concrete floors and virtually no visible light to showcase his spring line. I have to admit there was something amusing about watching sweaty fashion editors in designer cocktail dresses tottering in six-inch stilettos as they made their way to their seats in the nearly dark surroundings, sidestepping pools of water that collected on the hard floor.

    The hard-edged space seemed a fitting location for a collection that was much tougher than anything that Gurung has previously shown.

    Yet the hard-edged space, pumped with fake smoke and thumping music, seemed a fitting location for a collection that was much tougher than anything that Gurung has previously shown.

    The designer alternated black and white looks, pitting an embroidered white jacket with a chiffon tail and cropped slacks against a black tailcoat and tunic that, in the Blade Runner surroundings, seemed like a battle between good and evil.

    As it progressed, the collection grew softer and more coloful with floral jackets, dropwaist dresses adorned with feathers and sequins and an eye-catching red organza blouse, which the program note referred to as a "muscle tee," over a tank with graphic inserts. The last look, a strapless dropwaist dress with embroidered red feathers, could have come from a classic Bill Blass collection, which seems fitting because that's the fashion house where Gurung got his start.

    Wang, who regularly shows his collection in a similar dark warehouse, Pier 97, in midtown Manhattan, has long featured a more urban edge. Hipsters Justin Theroux (the fiance of Jennifer Aniston) and members of the South African hip-hop band Die Antwoord, including Yo-Landi Vi$$er, who wore a white net mask over the bottom half of her face, and Ninja, who shot photographers the bird, added the proper street cred, along with New York Knicks basketball star Tyson Chandler, who wore designer shorts that fell below the knee.

    Wang's spring collection is almost exclusively black and white, with a mix of smock-like shirts, leather bibs and dresses with cut-out pieces threaded together to move like an undulating stream when the model walks down the runway. Nearly every look, from pencil skirts to boxy "hockey jersey" dresses, features geometric pieces in suspended detail. Sweaters are molded to the body in patterns of thick cable knit and cropped parkas are made of a futuristic-looking rubberized twill.

    Models at the Wang show wore minimal makeup, their hair parted with a strip of tape down the middle, and minimalistic gladiator boots to add to the "don't mess with me" attitude.

    Models wore minimal makeup, their hair parted with a strip of tape down the middle, and minimalistic gladiator boots to add to the "don't mess with me" attitude.

    Liberty Ross, the 33-year old model and estranged wife of Snow White and the Huntsman director Rupert Sanders, confidentally walked the runway in a white poncho and pencil skirt. (Sanders had a brief fling with Twilight star Kristen Stewart, which continues to keep the tabloids in a frenzy.)

    Before the show, a voice on the loudspeaker asked the audience to refrain from using flash cameras or cell phones, which seemed like an odd request because snapping photos and sending them via Twitter or Instagram have become key components in the fashion publicity machine.

    But it became apparent at the end of the show when nine models dressed in all-white stood in position while the lights went out — transforming them for a few seconds into neon glow sticks.

    It was the first shot of color in the entire show.

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