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//DDD// J. Mendel Fall Winter 2012



Written By: Lynn Furge, Senior Fashion Editor
Photos By: Billy Rood for www.figphoto.net
The name of the game was “how glam can you go?” at J. Mendel today. First it was the fur. Loads of it worked in as many ways possible from blocked together in different textures and some with alligator sleeves, pristine and angelic in a palette of black and white or camel, these coats are clearly for the car service crowd only. Heaven forbid you walk down Madison and get splashed by a latent taxi!

Then it was the gowns. Plunging in the front with super sexy triangular cut outs either at shoulders, around the mid-section they were a little to forward for the Oscar red carpet but we have been seeing a lot of risk takers lately, so maybe some starlet will prove me wrong and dare to be as bare as Giles Mendel envisioned. The completion of the Fall Winter 2012 collection was the introduction of hand bags that were lined in mink. Enough said.