This garden party has been three years in the making. Longtime ApparelMagic client Badgley Mischka celebrated their big three-oh in style during New York Fashion Week with a show for the books. Taking their girl to the great outdoors—albeit a manicured topiary park more likely—designers Mark Badgley and James Mischka did what they do best: elegant occasionwear for the most sophisticated women.
Flowers were everywhere, here as a rich, moody floral print on marabou-hemmed shift dress and there as palm-sized three-dimensional silk flowers adorning a super abbreviated mini dress. For women of a certain age though, there are plenty of more pared-back column dresses that are just as beautiful, especially one worn just days later at the Emmy Awards by actress Laurie Metcalf.