Let them eat Rodarte

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Well the shows roll on in New York, with yet more reports of empty front row seats – even at Monday night’s Marc Jacobs show, which as frockwriter reported almost the minute it happened, started early. Jacobs shows off-schedule at the Lexington Armory (where his Marc by Marc Jacobs show just wrapped). In spite of IMG's claims that show numbers are on par with previous seasons, the IMG-operated Bryant Park tent setup seems particularly hard hit, perhaps due to the additional costs of showing there. Yesterday we reported one show-goer referring to the tents as “dead” due to schedule gaps. Just in, this Tweet from Mediabistro/fishbowlNY managing editor Rebecca Leigh Fox that on Tuesday, the “Bryant Park tents were no-(wo)man's land this am-think i saw tumbleweed roll by even w/ Badgley Mischka seating. cue recession wails”. Rodarte also shows off-schedule, but given that the designers, Kate and Laura Mulleavy, won the 100,000 euro Swiss Textiles Award (A$198,362) in November (and with additional $ from Swarovski), they are not as cash-strapped as some other emerging American fashion names.


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Click here to see the video of their beautiful FW0910 collection, a near single-note sonata of hand-crafted, heavily embellished - and incredibly short - dresses, every last outfit teamed with some remarkable rumpled leather legging boots by Nicholas Kirkwood.

Noone fell this time (unlike last season) - just a stumble at 5.51 as one girl heads backstage.

This level of craftsmanship is however sure to engender sticker shock.