Katherine’s Picks: Spring Fashion... While my fall look was all about un-basic black on black, this spring I’m excited to take a note from some of my favorite runway shows and infuse my wardrobe with some lighter pieces. I particularly loved the sophisticated looks from Preen’s S/S 10 show, including all of the gauzy tops and...

What Would She Wear: Kristen Bell... Whether she’s issuing social warnings as the unseen narrator of Gossip Girl or holding her own against charismatic comedic actors like Jason Segal, Russell Brand, and Jason Bateman, Kristen Bell always infuses her characters with a sort of grounded confidence that’s charming to watch. Bell...

Pringle of Scotland... In her continued quest to reinvent the Scottish knitwear label Pringle, creative director Clare Waight Keller has been looking for ways to modernize its heritage argyle pattern. “I wanted to break up the design and make it more abstract,” she said at today’s pre-fall presentation. A cozy...

Rachel Roy... “Moroccan military” is the angle Rachel Roy is working for pre-fall. Not literally, of course—we don’t suppose she’s been up nights studying the North African armed forces—but this collection’s uniform-inspired touches, rendered in moody, autumnal colors, put the...

Collette Dinnigan... Fantasy is one theme of the Spring collections, and Alice in Wonderland was the muse Collette Dinnigan channeled. It took a while to get to the fun part, though: The designer opened this dress-focused show with a passage in pre-rabbit-hole black and white. There was a little lace, some tulle, and...

Costume National... On the same morning that Karl Lagerfeld took pains to emphasize the un-brevity of the shorts he was showing, Ennio Capasa paraded the most impossibly tiny variants of the same idea. His premise was “tender heart, tough exterior,” which possibly explained the biker-chick combo of jacket and...