Zero + Maria Cornejo Spring 2011 Ready-to-Wear CollectionFor Spring, Maria Cornejo had ideas about cultural displacement, heritage, and the search for identity.Tags:  Zero Maria Cornejo |  Zero Maria Cornejo Official Website: www.zeromariacornejo.com

Zac Posen Pre-Fall 2010 CollectionA pair of striking black swans decorated the hem of a red velvet column gown, and sweet running bunnies and toadstools dotted georgette dresses and intarsia sweaters.Tags:  Zac Posen |  Zac Posen Official Website: www.zacposen.com

Yigal Azrouël Resort 2011 CollectionA pair of expertly tailored shorts trimmed with a knit waistband, for example, was paired with a slouchy silk pocket tee.Tags:  Yigal Azrouel |  Yigal Azrouel Official Website: www.yigal-azrouel.com

TSE Spring 2009 Ready-to-Wear CollectionThese were more than basics, but not so much so that they would scare those customers who still associate TSE with a great cashmere sweater.Tags:  Betsey Johnson |  Betsey Johnson Official Website: www.betseyjohnson.com

Ruffian Spring 2010 Ready-to-Wear Collectiont was business as usual at Ruffian, and by that we mean Brian Wolk and Claude Morais presented clothes designed for the pursuit of pleasureTags:  Ruffian |  Ruffian Official Website: www.ruffian.com

Jen Kao Spring 2011 Ready-to-Wear CollectionA standout gown in various rosy sandstone hues had a fully structured bustier from which hung a fluid silk skirt.Tags:  Jen Kao |  Jen Kao Official Website: www.kao.com

Elie Tahari Resort 2011 CollectionElie Tahari's Resort collection took its influence from Andrew Zuckerman's photographs of exotic birds, a body of work that's inspired more fashion than you might expect. Brilliant flashes of colorTags:  Elie Tahari |  Elie Tahari Official Website: www.elietahari.com

Dsquared² Resort 2011 CollectionDan and Dean Caten left the sexed-up Helmut Newton girls they imagined for Fall on the runwayTags:  DSquared |  DSquared Official Website: www.dsquared2.com

Douglas Hannant Fall 2009 Ready-to-Wear Collectionwhile some pieces' sole moment of drama came from shots of eyelet tulle that exposed the wearer's back. These were wear-forever looks whose clean-lined charm, like Miss Golightly's, won't date anytime soon.Tags:  Douglas Hannant |  Douglas Hannant Official Website: www.weeken.com

Christopher Kane Fall 2010 Ready-to-Wear CollectionThe first sight of what Christopher Kane does always entails a kind of sick stomach lurch, that slight vision-changing nausea brought on by witnessing something cheap and tasteless being transformed into fashion at speedTags:  Christopher Kane |  Christopher Kane Official Website: www.weeke.cc

Chris Benz Resort 2011 CollectionAs his starting point for Resort, Chris Benz was thinking of the midcentury ceramist Sascha Brastoff, whose Los Angeles milieu included another of the collection's muses, Carmen Miranda.Tags:  Chris Benz |  Chris Benz Official Website: www.chris-benz.com

Chloé Fall 2010 Ready-to-Wear CollectionBeige, beige, and more beige. It's no news by now that the paler shade of brown, and the grown-up daywear it connotes, have become mainstays of the season.Tags:  Chloe |  Chloe Official Website: www.chloe.com

Carlos Miele Resort 2011 CollectionEvening looks made up the entirety of Carlos Miele's Resort collection, but that didn't mean this was totally business as usual from the festive-minded Brazilian designer.Tags:  Carlos Miele |  Carlos Miele Official Website: www.carlosmiele.com.br

Bill Blass Resort 2011 CollectionJeffrey Monteiro must have felt daunted, as the fifth design director to take the reins at Bill Blass since its namesake designer retired in 1999.Tags:  Bill Blass |  Bill Blass Official Website: www.billblass.com

Barbara Tfank Fall 2010 Ready-to-Wear CollectionLast season, Barbara Tfank created a few of her own prints for the first time; Fall saw her plunging headlong into graphic-design mode.Tags:  Barbara Tfank |  Barbara Tfank Official Website: www.weeken.cc

A.F. Vandevorst Fall 2010 Ready-to-Wear CollectionSave for a pair of unfortunate face harnessesTags:  A.F.Vandevorst |  A.F.Vandevorst Official Website: www.afvandevorst.be