NYFW 2011 - ELLE Fashion NEXT Runway Show

The editors of ELLE selected 22 students from RISD to showcase their designs at NYFW 2011. The judging panel was made up of designers Tommy Hilfiger & Derek Lam, and ELLE editors Joe Zee, Anne Slowey, and Alexis Bryan Morgan. It was SICK!!! Innovative!!! Layers, flow, more like fall steez than spirng...love. Check out my fav looks from the runway:

Before the gaggles arrive

Ladylike

Unveiling the runway

Peep my style guru Kate Lanphear, Style Director of Elle Mag, in the white blazer...

Could a dress flow any better??!!

Many a male model with tattoos on runways this season...LOVE IT.

These are some of the best designs I've seen so far in NYFW. Innovative young folks, untouched by the market and demands for trends and "fashion". It's a beautiful thang.

Happy shopping.