I hate opera slippers.

New York Fashion Week! You know what that means -- hours of unproductive work time as you relentlessly flip through the pix at style.com. Or at least that's what it means for me (just kidding HR rep of my company if you are reading. which i know you're not because you dress like crap!)

Have you seen the Marc Jacobs collection yet? Now let me preface by saying that I thought his Fall '06 collections for his namesake label as well as for Louis Vuitton were possibly the two most perfect things I've ever seen. But maybe like me, Marc has an easier time with Fall than he does with Spring. There are lots of beautiful things in the collection, but I'd have to say that I was disappointed overall. It seemed like there was a big effort to maintain the layering aesthetic of the Fall 06 collection. And while it worked when the concept was reinterpreted as a dress that looked like windblown sheets of paper, or with deconstructed bits of lace and organza, it looked dowdy, overdone and un-springlike when duplicating the shorts + skirt + blouse + sweater + coat + hat look from fall. There were some beautiful draped jersey dresses. But the hats were straight out of my sister's harlequin doll collection from '88. No thanks.