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Donna Karan Holiday: Night Music

When Donna Karan does resort wear, it’s not so much about a mid-winter vacation in St. Tropez as a sultry evening on the town in her favorite city. Thus, her in-between season collection, which she presented in a runway show in her New York showroom on Friday, June 4, was dubbed Holiday 2010, rather than “Resort” or “Cruise.”

With slinky silhouettes inspired by “the sensuality of a tuxedo,” said her program notes, she opened with a “platinum” chainmail plunging v-neck halter paired with a graphic black and silver wrap skirt and lean tuxedo jacket.

Later, the tuxedo look was softened into a pajama-like suit of white semi-transparent trousers and silky wrap jacket with strong shoulders and extra-long sleeves, an idea she repeated elsewhere, perhaps her interpretation of the oversized look of a borrowed men’s jacket.

The disco slumber party gave way to more feminine frills in the form of sleeveless wrap tops with pleated ruffled collars and a “celestial” star print jacket, which was a surprising twist in a color parade of mostly solid navy, white, black and silver.

Jersey goddess gowns twisted and seductively draped sauntered down the runway at the close of the show, moving like liquid metal and guaranteed to disappear noiselessly into the night like silvery apparitions.

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