Catch Tag

Move over micro-mini, there’s a recent skirt silhouette taking on this season as designers hopped on the long train for fall, embracing mullet, mermaid and trumpet dresses for evening that added some much needed drama to the season’s mostly neutral utilitarian day looks.   At Victoria Beckham, the British designer attempted to reconcile the fantasy of Paris fashion and the fact of cultivating her customer. Alongside this season’s more business sharp-shouldered tailoring, “Beckham pushed the thought of playing dress-up with off-kilter silk patchwork pleat dresses adorned with feathers [and] Nineteen Forties starlet gowns and underpinnings,” wrote WWD’s West Coast executive editor Booth Moore, inspired by socialite-turned-eccentric Edith Bouvier Beale, as depicted first within the 1975 documentary “Grey Gardens,” and within the 2009...