Fashion week

By Alison S. Cohn Rick Owens | Designer: Rick Owens "a rocker feel. . . . But the fabrics were upscale" (The International Herald Tribune) Getty)D & G | Designers: Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana | slide show "the sailing theme seemed more of a fashion platitude than a new attitude" (The Internationa...

By Alison S. Cohn By now the stilettoed set covering the shows in Europe has traded caffè latte for café au lait. For the rest of the world, however, last week had some distractions (a worsening global financial crisis, for example), so a Milan fashion refresher is probably in order. Here is an ultrasimplifi...