New York Fashion Week Day 2 - VLOV, Esber and Alejandro Ingelmo

Alejandro Ingelmo showed a mix of killer heels with dramatic cutouts and stand-ups.

An exclusive peek into the world of top fashion as our fashion expert Gemma Champ gives you a daily take on what’s happening, as it happens, during New York Fashion Week.

Young talents

Even in New York, fashion isn’t all about well-established talents. Among the designers showing on Saturday was QingQing Wu, whose menswear collection VLOV offered beautiful tailoring in sweet pastel blue seersucker-style silks, linens and cottons, as well as airy shirts and soft-as-butter leathers.

QingQing Wu, whose menswear collection VLOV offered beautiful tailoring in sweet pastel blue seersucker-style silks, linens and cottons, as well as airy shirts and soft-as-butter leathers.

Later, the Australian designers Christopher Esber and Ellery joined forces to show their similarly modernist collections, Esber’s all space-age white and shiny, and Ellery’s a more mid-century, feminine approach in glossy gold and neutrals.

Australian designers Christopher Esber and Ellery joined forces to show their similarly modernist collections.

Finally the shoe designer Alejandro Ingelmo showed a mix of killer heels with dramatic cutouts and stand-ups, and fluorescent or metallic trainers for men.

The end of another long day – and thank goodness we’re not wearing those heels on the Subway.

Read Gemma's coverage from New York Fashion Week including an exclusive interview with celebrity designer Victoria Beckham.

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