New York Fashion Week's Biggest Spring Trend

Peplums

(Jason Wu)

Peplums kept popping up all New York fashion week long 

(Cynthia Rowley)

(Marc by Marc Jacobs)

                                                                                                               (Suno)

This is like the camel of Spring 2012: over-hyped trend seen on far too many runways considering it will flatter about 1% of the population

(Who wants this diapery effect, Vera Wang?)

(Lela Rose only half commits, but that's still a half too much)

(The Row don't know most women don't want to add volume to their hips!)

Jesus, Can Nothing Stop Vera Wang?!

Do you know a bridezilla? The type A women so anxious to get married their whole life when the moment finally occurs they're too busy yelling and fuming to notice? And you just KNOW they gotta have a Vera Wang gown even if it's the David's Bridal one

And then she goes on her honeymoon dressed in Vera Wang for Kohl's and sleeps or her Vera Wang Serta mattress

Now she can have a Vera Wang ring too with her recently inked deal with mall jeweler Zales

Men, we must rally in this time of distress. Vera Wang must be stopped before she is designing the stationary your divorce papers are printed on too!

This Week's Top Model Moment

(smile with your eyes, Cousin Oliver)

Oh Top Model, where do I begin? Remember how The Brady Bunch, realizing it was losing steam, brought in Cousin Oliver in a showy grab for resuscitation? Well, this season's spread in "Vogue Italia" Top Model prize is the trot it out diversion for a show way past its prime.

-sigh- Moving on, this week's was the best episode yet. The "emulate a famous fashion designer" photo shoot has been done so many VOGUEing times, but still, fun and light and it brought out the best in a lot of dishwater girls

(Mr G and I love Liz, but her Negative Nelly attitude sucks)

(Black Girls Love Betsey Johnson. Every black girl I know rocked a Betsey to Prom)

(Finally they gave Kayla some natural looking red hair. That Rihanna red color does not a model make!)

Honestly, this was the BEST theme so far as most of the season's shoots have felt like half-baked ideas at a movie studio pitch meeting ("so, she's a mermaid under a sheet of glass with water on top of it and we'll shoot her from above... no wait, she's a fabulous Lucha Libre... no wait...")

BUT if you're going to assign a girl Vera Wang, do not complain that the girl comes off "flat". Vera Wang, honey, ain't exactly known for her personality