Kaelen | New York Fashion Week, FW12

Kaelen Haworth is one of those designers who I've been REALLY excited to watch develop and grow. I loved her Spring Summer 2012 collection, and I really loved her Fall Winter 2012 Collection that showed yesterday at Lincoln Center. My biggest take away? Texture. Oh my god, I wanted to touch everything. There were so many sensuous textural elements throughout the collection (shearling, laser cut leather, flecked wool, buttery silk, airy chiffon, incredible metallics...) that I was truly seduced by the contrasting materials as much as by the designs and silhouettes themselves. The almost-black, ultra-deep purple lip was the perfect complement to the grey-scaled collection. Turn down the saturation, turn up the moody glam? I'm sold.