Malan at Bryant Park

As you know, darlings, we dashed off to Bryant Park yesterday to catch Malan's new collection. But before we talk about that, let's talk about one of our favorite topics. Us.

What an absolute hoot it was to be standing in line inside the tents at Bryant Park and suddenly realize that people you don't know are holding up their cell phones and taking pictures of you. To the very lovely people who waved us over and asked us to pose for them, we would like to say that if we were anything less than completely gracious, we totally apologize. We were flabbergasted over the attention, but more importantly, we hadn't had any coffee yet. Besides, we owe you a huge thanks for giving us the opportunity to have the following text exchange with Laura Bennett:

LB: Do you guys have any free time to come over after the show?
T Lo: Sure. Gotta run. People want to take our picture.

We guarantee her eyes practically rolled inside her head at that one.


Here's the view of the tent before it filled up with people.


Lorenzo with Fern Mallis. We were utterly thrilled to meet her and gushed like giddy schoolgirls. She's sweet and down to earth and poo-poo'd our praise. You know what we loved the most about her? Despite her uber-powerful standing in the fashion world, girl had pills on her sweater. How cute is that?


Katy Gerdes from S3 and Diana Eng from S2. Both adorable.


Katy was THRILLED to meet us and said she reads us while brushing her teeth, which is a new one.


Diana with the fabulous commenter (and our good friend) you all know as Gorgeous Things, who's wearing an Emmett McCarthy dress.

After the show was over we of course pushed our way backstage like the bitches we are.


Avec the man of the hour.


FABULOUS AMANDA! We've said it before and we'll say it again: That bitch can WALK.


Angela Keslar from S3. We...um...we didn't tell her who we were when we asked for a picture.

And now, the show. The program described it thusly:

"The captivating dichotomies of the characters played by Catherine Deneuve in her early career in "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" and "Belle de Jour" inspire Malan Breton's designs for his Fall 2008 collection"

It was wonderful to see Malan get away from his trademark "old Hollywood glamour" aesthetic and embrace a new "swinging '60s French cinema" one. The look was clean and sophisticated and pared down. We would have liked to see him get away from so much black since he's done it so often and we really would like to see him embrace the occasional print and texture in order to get out of his "chiffon, organza, satin, taffeta" comfort zone.

We think the show started off strong and tended to get weaker toward the end, possibly because several of the looks tended to be extremely repetitive.

These two were our favorite looks in the whole collection. Clean and chic.

We love the look on the left, but we're ambivalent about the one on the right.

Nice, but we're already having difficulty telling certain looks apart.

Do not like the look on the left at all.

Basic.

We would have liked the second look much more if the hem had hit at a different point.

Don't like that patent leather jacket at all.





Again, basic. And we still aren't fond of that below-the-knee hem length.





The dress on the left was gorgeous, but as high impact as the dress on the right was, the fact is, the model could barely walk in it, which tended to greatly reduce its impact.

Despite our bitchy complaints, the overall look was very sleek and sophisticated and very Malan. Congratulations, darling!

Watch the video here:


[Photos: WireImage/Project RunGay - Video: Bravotv.com]