Vanities

RUNWAY TAKEOFFS

November 1989
Vanities
RUNWAY TAKEOFFS
November 1989

RUNWAY TAKEOFFS

Vanities

This season, we present a collection of elegantly draped, masterfully cut personalities: the top ten faces of N.Y.C.'s R.T.W. fashion designers, who will be showing their forthcoming spring collections. The bubble skirt burst, the pouf went puff, so after the years of European excess it's a great moment for the American realists to do their pareddown thing. A thing, incidentally, that is N.Y.C.'s single largest manufacturing industry—these ten do well over $5 billion retail a year.