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This is perhaps the only chance, the best opportunity for me to make them happy." Leopard and zebra is a significant theme in the women's collection, and features in dresses, tops, coats and lingerie. A tailored jacket is teamed with slim slacks or shorts. A leather jacket is decorated with fringes and a fake-fur jacket has eyelets and studs. A heavily embellished jacket adds instant glamour to tight fitting or wide leg jeans. A leopard-print or black corset top looks dazzling on bare skin for the evening and there are several blouses with animal prints, ruffles and bows. Also for the evening, there is a sequined mini dress, a chiffon baby doll dress in zebra print or leopard print, a long metallic pleated halter dress and a long animal print dress. Lingerie includes a leopard-print push-up and a soft triangle bra, a string and a hot pant, camisole and knickers. To complete the look there are accessories such as bone and pearl pendants, a golden cuff bracelet and a ring, a belt and a wallet as well as gold sandals and black satin Mary Jane shoes. "The collection is built around a selection of Cavalli's favorite pieces throughout the years, of which many are made to wear on the red carpet," points out Margareta van den Bosch, H&M's head of design. "I believe H&M chose me for a reason," Cavalli adds. "November and December is the high time to party, when everybody craves a beautiful dress. My name and style has always been linked to the parties and red carpets." Animal prints and lurex are important for women whilst for men, it's more discreet black, midnight blue, brown and white, sharply tailored and masculine.
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"There's a lot of fur," said Jaqui Lividini, senior vice-president, fashion merchandising, at Saks Fifth Avenue. "It feels very glamorous, but it's not the kind of sexpot glamour we've seen in the past. It's more of an innocent glamour." Designer Michael Kors used paisley print for a fringed scarf skirt, off-the-shoulder blouse and halter dress, while Nicole Miller used peacock prints. Narciso Rodriguez used contrasting seams and ribbons to accent his structured solids. Textures and patterns that evoke earlier eras such as the Victorian or Art Deco ages will be popular for fall, said Ben Gomes of the fashion and trend information company OPR. "We are looking for things that are very reassuring and comfortable and also very interesting. We're looking for things that are gratifying," he said. Liebmann said she saw consumers craving an "emotional richness." "Multiple textures and beading and silks give a sense of richness emotionally and financially in a time that is pretty bare of that," she said. "It's the economy. It's an uncertain economy. It's an uncertain world geopolitically." More than a few designers this week liberally mixed looks, combining dense with sheer or rough with smooth. "A great tweed jacket with a satin skirt is perfect, and it's not a typical combination," Lividini said. "It's consumer-friendly. It's very commercially viable. It's very much what the customer wants right now. "I think the New York designers are on the right track," she said. More than 100 designers showed their latest collections last week in New York.