Unlike most of the collections presented at New York Fashion Week, 3.1 Phillip Lim Fall 2011 didn’t use red as its accent color. Instead, Lim chose a brilliant shade of cobalt for everything from neoprene clutches to leather hobo to the tiny arcs at the bottom of his models’ manicures. And sometimes, when a trend is so pronounced and obvious, the best thing that you can do is buck it.
Lim’s bags were interesting beyond just his color choices, though. This collection marks a maturation in the brand as a source of stylish accessories, and the handbags (or what we can see of them) look as though they’ll be pretty covetable come fall. Particularly the black leather north-south tote; the grained leather makes it look slouchier than the smooth leather versions currently available at retail.
Photos via Vogue.com.
I am loving the cobalt – I know what I’ll be pre-ordering this year.
I die! I love this handbag collection. I am in love with the Cobalt Blue Leather Hobo!
Not impressed. I find most of them lackluster.
The black clutch with the gold clasp is really nice – simple, but nice.
I definitely prefer red. None of these really catches my eye, the one in the big picture just confuses me- why does it have zippers on the sides?
*catch
What got my attention at the first place is the manucure. Original but still classy and wearable.
And about the bags, nothing really special.
Nice bag, but the fungal manicure is very distracting. 🙂