"Falling Cars and Junkyard Dogs" (Soft Skull Press) is a collection of autobiographical vignettes illustrated by the author's own black-and-white photographs, which, like his music, evoke a vanishing America.
Alexander Wang bonded brushed mohair to neoprene to get a lightweight material with a soft but slightly stiff voluminous look for several looks in his eponymous fall collection.
But where Gurung was about modern take-charge urban warriors, Adam Lippes of Adam showed a crowd-pleasing delicately feminine collection of light airy dresses in sheer pastel fabrics or in soft silks in shades of pink or ivory.