Looks:

• Women who ride motorcycles
• Spliced functional-looking athletic and utilitarian elements
• Cropped pants and smart coats
• Black bonded-silk utility coat with big patch pockets
• Sturdy ribbed cardigans
  • sliced up the side
• A white silk dress with beaded sleeves
  • modeled after a baseball jersey
• Awkward stiff carrot-shaped pants and squared-off culottes
• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7
• 8
• 9
• 10

Beauty

• Asian-influenced half-up/half-downs for hair
  • "Shogun bumps"
  • hair prepped with a Kérastase Double Force Controle Ultime hair spray for structure
  • divided into two sections
  • top was pulled only a quarter of the way through an elastic to look like a samurai knot
  • under layer was treated to a deep wave courtesy of a three-pronged curling iron
• Manicures were a dollop of CND's Midnight Sapphire painted on top of its Desert Suede
  • Crescent moon shaped dollop of Midnight Sapphire was meant to resemble the rubber from a bike tire
• Shimmering jade and aqua lids
  • muted emerald shade
    • NARS' Eyeshadow Trio in Delphes
  • layered with the turquoise, dark hunter, and dusty lime
    • NARS' Eyeshadow Trio in Cap Ferrat
• Metallic forest green and sparkling blue eyeliner
  • NARS' Larger Than Life Longwear Eyeliner in Rue de Rivoli and Abbey Road
  • adds dimension to the inner rim of the eyes
• NARS' Pago Pago lipstick
  • new fall shade
• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4[http://www.style.com/slideshows/2011/fashionshows/F2011RTW

/PLIM/BEAUTY/00180m.jpg]

• 5
• 6
• 7

Accessories

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7
• 8
• 9

Fabrics, Prints, and Execution

• Raglan sleeves on silk jumpsuits
  • leather for day
  • covered with bobbling bronze beads for evening
• A letterman's jacket in curly lamb and leather
• Cardigans sliced up the side
• Pants and culottes all cut with an extra fold of material pleated onto the front
  • inspired by Lim's visual research of tribes and gangs
    • cholos buy their pants too big and fold them in to have a heavier stance
• Swirling floral print a nod to Japanese yakuza tattoos
  • inspired by Lim's visual research of tribes and gangs
• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7
• 8
• 9
• 10
• 11
• 12
• 13
• 14

Best Personal Style

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

ALL FROM STYLE.COM