By Elizabeth Ladzinski
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
LINCOLN CENTER — As Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week drew to a close Thursday, fashionistas paused to reflect on the shows and the styles they saw.
They noted that trends for fall include real leather, fur, wide-leg pants, and lighter colors brightening gloomy collections.
"I've seen a lot of leather and fur, and darker colors like gray or black but with a dash of hot pink or green," said Belle Krol, a blogger who travels back and forth from Argentina to cover New York fashion.
"I feel like it's spring fever," said Inyoung Park, a correspondent for Cosmopolitan, of the lighter colors she's seen in the week's collections. She also noted that the grand halls of Lincoln Center give smaller, younger designers more of a chance to show off their work, compared to the cramped tents of Bryant Park.
Some of the designers that Park enjoyed included A Détacher, Phillip Lim, Oscar de la Renta and Donna Karen.
Multiple attendees were disappointed by Wednesday's Alexandre Herchcovitch show.
"I liked the shape of the dresses, but it wasn't really wearable" said Roxanne Doucet, 23, writer for Montreal-based fashion, art and design website, "triptyqu3."
"The mix of color — black and bright yellow — was weird," Doucet said.
Ebony Jackson, fashion editor of DAM magazine, was attending her first Fashion Week shows on Thursday, but had been following all of the coverage online.
"I loved Vivienne Tam, she has lots of passion and spirit," Jackson said.
David Gallizio, a photographer for Elle magazine who has been shooting Fashion Week in Milan, Paris, and New York for the past three years, said he felt that some, but not all, of this season's clothing was particularly commercial-looking, and not very conceptual or "high-fashion."
"You can really see that they made up clothes just to sell them," Gallizio said. "In the past, it was more about the designers really putting themselves into the collection."
"But it's been fun, as always," he added.
