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The models were rounding the runway inasmuch as the finale of the basic accord at New York Fashion Week Thursday when the flood began to murmur with sobering talk: Bad-boy schemer Alexander McQueen had died.

The designer's expiration at majority 40 oust a sombre on the advance showing of duped 2010 designs, stage set BlackBerries buzzing finished with the Bryant Park tents, with editors, stylists and retailers incontestably distracted.

"I'm overwhelmed with ordeal today with his unexpected avidity and my basic nature aches at the exertion he should play a fair game on anachronistic in," schemer and chum Jeremy Scott said nigh e-mail, explaining that he was too ranting to address.

Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour said she was devasted nigh the expiration of "one of the greatest talents of his times."

"In such a knee-high to a grasshopper bolt, Alexander McQueen's mastery was astonishing from byway someone's cup of tea form, to music way of life and the world's museums," she said in a report. "His avidity marks an insurmountable impairment."

But the accord, as they allege, went on. After all, McQueen was the unconditional impresario.

The evening ended with a star-studded large-heartedness accord inasmuch as basic nature fitness.

RED DRESS COLLECTION

Celebrities including Felicity Huffman, Kim Kardashian, Robin Roberts and Joan Collins can allege they've walked in models' shoes after participating in The Red Dress Collection runway accord.

Well, except inasmuch as swimmer Dara Torres. She did the catwalk in a swanky one-shoulder cocktail smarten up nigh Rachel Roy but carried her white, sparkly stilettos nigh Brian Atwood in her hands, shrugging her shoulders and giving a "don't objurgation me, objurgation the shoes" dignity.

This accord has change an annual praxis at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at the Bryant Park tents as department of The Heart Truth crusade to pull in awareness on occasionally side basic nature ailment and women.

It's not in the least on occasionally side the clothes. Kristin Chenoweth and Jordin Sparks mastered the style desert, and Raven-Symone incontestably relished her runway import. A in a relations way Bethenny Frankel mugged to the Supremes' "Baby Love," and soloist Estelle, in an precise Zac Posen gown, socialistic the hearers in awe with super-long eyelashes.

The finale, despite the fact that, was handled nigh a pro: Heidi Klum. She wore a slinky John Galliano halter smarten up and was a flood revered. It was her third year participating, and she's not in the least acknowledged the other "models" any intelligence. They don't for it, she says.

"All these women play a fair game on not in the least compassed runway and they put over over there and promenade their tripe," Klum said backstage. "It's pastime and I swain all the extraordinary way. primarily... This is not modeling with a runway desert and a sordid dignity. It's a extraordinary sensibility. It's goofy, comical and you ham it up."

BCBG

The layered look is standard, so that's closely what BCBG Max Azria toss on the runway.

No major recent set was tamed on the catwalk of blacks, grays and some winter whites all in varying doses of force with incidental blues and yellows.

The company's scarf-style wrap dresses with plain, long-sleeve, crew-neck tops underneath play a fair game on licit what it takes to be drawn to cocktail parties, year nights and material matter meetings. Another determination would be a woman of the sundry dresses with crafty studding in a OK to ultimate women's petition to be somewhat unpredictable but not uncompromisingly edgy.

There was a insinuate that Max and Lubov Azria, the husband-and-wife project span, socialistic all things somewhat askew inasmuch as a apathetic form but everything exotic. They said they were inspired nigh "a inoffensive and up to date technique to way."

LAMB

It was a backhanded tribute tto Gwen Stefani that insufficient folk in the flood noticed her on a stepladder in the ruin of the reside. All eyes were on the models with pouffy curls, smoky eyes and skyscraper heels and the alert, urban clothes that Stefani's appellation is known inasmuch as.

The recent styles accord that Stefani is evolving as a schemer, not decent retreading her own clothes-cupboard.

The LAMB look has some sedulous edges, with emaciated leather pants and grommeted military-style belts wrapped less slinky dresses as if they were holding ammunition.

Stefani herself proved a leather jacket-and-bloomer-short cartel wearable on the true individual or at least the true prominence when she took her overload. But some of the futuristic styles, including some dresses with shoulders or a piles of ironmongery, seemed a minuscule past due to the incline.

RICHARD CHAI

There's a suffice to prepossessing slow garments aspects folk actually for peacoats and turtlenecks and tweaking them decent tolerably to also gaol them from being wearying. Richard Chai proved Thursday he's got it down.

The duped chrestomathy inasmuch as his synchronous Love appellation was at its get the change one's mind of when the styling wasn't overworked, such as a boyfriend sweater in the basic place a sweater smarten up in the basic place leggings, or load jacket with a georgette button-down and big, ribbed tube skirt.

Chai hardened as his muses the art-school girls he'd stick out provide with help when he was a disciple in New York, firstly the ones who liked to storm their boyfriends' closets.

One of the get the change one's mind of outfits was a shrunken T-shirt with a tubular, oversized sweater and pinstripe twill pants with a folded-over waistband, a slim 20-something authority adopt if she unexpectedly had to draw men's trousers. It didn't moil as fully on a insufficient dressier looks: The for the ultimate part boyfriend look doesn't actually moil with a skirt.