Phillip Lim's collection showed off what New York designers do best: clean lines, sophisticated tailoring and neutral (yes, I can hear you saying "safe") colours. New York might, quite rightly, be derided for being the capital of commercial fashion, but there are legions of ladies out there who don't want to look "directional" in Rick Owens. They want to look groomed. This is what New York style is all about.
Lim's collection was his most sophisticated, covetable - and, I am not ashamed to say it - wearable, yet.
It lacked the "wow" factor of Prabal (it rhymes with "trouble") Gurung's spectacular display of technical prowess on Sunday, but it was no less beautiful.
There was of course, as we've seen all week, a lingering obsession with colour-blocking. But in Lim's case "blocking" seems too hard a word. A chalk pink jacket, with lapels lined in the softest gray, which looked like wings, was draped over a loose black blouse: a collarless cream silk jacket with peach slouchy trousers. It was a look at colour blocking with your sunglasses on.
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