Michael Kors Pre-Fall 2012

Michael Kors Pre-Fall 2012

For pre-fall, he solved the belt conundrum by simply attaching them to the coats. And what coats they were, particularly the charcoal felted flannel with a crisscross lapel that buckled, harness-like, and the cleanly cut, pony-hair balmacaan in a black-and-white oil-splattered pattern that was inspired by Richard Avedon’s landmark work, In the American West. Kors’s other major influence was the spectacular Ann Bonfoey Taylor exhibit at the Phoenix Art Museum (he and LePere traveled all the way to Arizona just to take in the show). The result was a collection that fused a cowboy sense of romance with Taylor’s equestrian chic: a long ruffle skirt with a cutaway hem in a graphic check, devoré silk dresses in turquoise and crimson, the most delicate peasant top in Chantilly lace.

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