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It’s about time – Time to analyze, time to applaud… time to acquire.

In the past few days, our mailbox has been filling with Ghosts of Fashion Week Past. On Tuesday, the stylish spirit armed the postman with a Sally LaPointe booklet-turned-photo-reel. Maintaining her keen concept of a Latent Panorama, LaPointe conveyed imminent darkness with hi-contrast backstage negatives and crimson backdrop shots.

And as Sally’s foreign landscape grows closer and clearer with Polariod-like suspense, so does the ability to acquire some LaPointe of our very own. You see, EVA BOUTIQUE seems to understand the DL dilemma – Tribeca tastes on a Murray Hill budget.

So, on April 21 from 5-9pm, EVA BOUTIQUE will be hosting an exclusive shopping event with 25% discount off the Spring/Summer 2011 collection and up to 80% discount on the Fall/Winter 2010 collection.

We’re so in. See you then at 355A Bowery.

After revealing designer events and a sharp photo montage, the Ghost of Fashion Week Past returned today, bearing reminders of Norman Ambrose in the form of a thick spiral-bound book in our mailbox. Ambrose, the California-born Milan-cultivated designer, amazed show-goers this season with his irreverent sophistication and 70s glamour.

We’re dying to get our hands on some Ambrose – until then, we’ll just covet from a distance and try to channel Faye Dunaway circa-1974.

Post by Amanda LaMela

Like a caldera at the maw of the underworld, so unfolded the terrain of warped monolithic forms in Sally LaPointe’s AW2011 collection this evening. The fluid montage projected onto the pre-show backdrop set the tone for LaPointe's runway, inspired by photographic processing and “the idea of something latent coming into visibility.” The collection juxtaposed Inferno-inspired imagery with a marbled Roland Flexner-esque aesthetic.

The show opened with a metallic knit bodysuit, worn underneath a silver silk herringbone jacket. This particularly aerodynamic look had the immediate effect of the ambient air condensing into something solid – a foreshadowing of an imminent transition.

As the show progressed, the collection became more thematically apparent as we approached its ninth circle with a printed silk Georgette jacket and red jersey leggings. It is in this look that her inspiration manifested, calling upon the abstract marmoreal arcs of a gelatin silver process.

The flash of the photographer’s bulbs faded and the next canto of LaPointe’s collection emerged from the afterglow -- a series of unctuous, dark silhouettes in micro chiffon and black metallic silk.

The anticipation of a developing Polaroid most closely describes the feeling we experienced during Sally LaPointe’s AW2011 runway collection. The final lineup, like an unfamiliar landscape in the distance, appeared as the awaited final image. Again, LaPointe demonstrated her ability to take the abstract and craft it into something sublimely tangible.