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12 February 14, 2006 THE RETRIEVER WEEKLY INSIDE New Woody Allen reviewed14 The Mütter Museum at AOK . Arts& 13 Entertainment Cool area events12 week sets the big apple on fire News from

ZACHARY DE LA CRUZ Retriever Weekly Staff Writer from La Betsey. This time, she paid the AOK tribute to her soon-to-be-born The seasons are changing once granddaughter with “Sweet Betsey,” a Library again in the Big Apple with the collection based on “Sweet Charity.” start of fashion week. Designers and And sweet it was: flirty and models, both known and unknown, feminine and not as bawdy as will to take Fashion Week by storm Johnson’s runway fare tends to be. and try to capture the next trend or She sent out an unusual but very craze in couture with racy colors and wearable taffeta trench coat, an bold patterns, while others remain amethyst striped ruffled wool suit, a stylish and simplistic with modern black knicker suit and sassy leather designs. shorts with a fringed shrug and Fashion Week will include ruffled jabot. presentations by Kenneth Cole, B. Michael Couture , , B. Michael makes some of , , America’s most breathtakingly , , Narciso beautiful evening and special occasion Rodriguez, Luca Luca, Betsey looks for women, and those he showed The Self Checkout Station Johnson, Baby Phat, Tracy Reese, were perhaps the best of Fashion is now open for business at the and Cynthia Rowley. More Week’s first five days. Nothing could Library. than 100 designers will preview their top his strapless white swan dress of The Albin O. Kuhn Library fall designs during the week. hand-embroidered feathers, except now has self checkout service Many of the runway shows will perhaps his stunning waterfall gown available at the Circulation Desk. be held at the tents, a 65,000-square- with sleeves of cascading, sparkling No need to wait in long lines to foot temporary structure set up in fringes. check out books, simply walk up Bryant Park in midtown . This is a designer who knows to the Self Checkout kiosk and Other shows will be held at venues how to wrap a woman in beguiling check them out yourself. The throughout the city. According to luxury. Yet in spite of his creative easy-to-follow screens will help organizer IMG Worldwide, some brilliance, one cannot help but worry you through the process. If any 15,000 editors, buyers, stylists and that Michael may never achieve the problems arise, a staff member fashion enthusiasts visit the tents widespread fame he has earned. will always be available at the each day, and over the entire week, Max Azria Circulation desk to help you. 4,000 outfits will be shown. For those who thought shabby Just bring your ID and try With fall and spring couture chic was dead, Azria seems to believe this new service. It is fast and easy already bathing in in resurrection. to use. beauty, it’s time to take a look at some His aim was to channel “singers If you have questions or featured designers: Oscar de la Renta, and poets of the beatnik generation.” [Photo Courtesy of Women’s Wear Daily] comments on this new service, Betsey Johnson, B. Michael Couture The result was dark and drab Fashion to the Max: Designer Max Azria mixes chic and beatnik.. please contact us at 410-455- and Max Azria. ensembles such as a black wool felt 2354. Oscar de la Renta jacket over a black wool jersey dress Do you know what the Is there such a thing as too with origami detail and black patent A.O.K Library offers? Our fabulous? Can a designer enter a boots. Black knee-highs accompanied information experts can provide dimension that is beyond the average most looks, and eyeglasses on a guidance for formulating search person’s scope of appreciation or, number of models were aimed at strategies and assistance with even, ability to relate? conveying a studious look. identifying the most appropriate Oscar de la Renta, the American Great overcoats were rays of electronic/print sources. You are equivalent of a Lanvin or a Rochas, sunshine, however, such as a bronze probably thinking…”I usually is nearing that point. His fall-winter herringbone jacquard design, a navy- find everything I need using collection unveiled at Olympus printed wool burlap style, a brown Google.” Yes, Google can lead Fashion Week here didn’t have a wool jacket with a fur collar, a soft you to some good information. described or discernible theme. wool reversible coat in chalk and a However, sometimes you But who needs a theme when sleek rust tweed coat with trench may stumble upon too much you’re perched at the pinnacle of details. information or information that fabulous? The proof is in the runway and is not valid or credible. This is Among 62 très chic looks he it’s the clothes doing the talking, why the Library Faculty can assist showed were embroidered cashmere, from a revitalized shabby chic look you. They can show you how to brocade dresses in brown, olive, gray, to drop-dead black cashmere dresses, identify relevant information and gold and purple and several drop- Fashion Week is only getting started. evaluate it quickly. dead little black dresses that could With summer and spring around make just about any fellow fall in the corner, hold on to your copies For reference assistance, contact love with the wearer. of Cosmo ladies and your copies of the Reference Desk at 52346 or One thing de la Renta and his GQ gentlemen because the face of Ask a Librarian at http://aok. team of design assistants might need fashion is going through an extreme lib.umbc.edu/reference/forms/ to do is take it easy on all the fur. All makeover! refqform.php3 or try our Chat of the sable, mink and chinchilla trim Service at http://aok.lib.umbc. and pieces on an already decadent Zach de la Cruz is a staff writer edu/reference/chat.php3. collection. for the Retriever Weekly. Pester him at Betsey Johnson [email protected] Simmona E. Simmons-Hodo, One never knows what sort [Photo courtesy of Women’s Wear Daily] Services Development Librarian of thrilling presentation to expect Flirty and Fabulous: A design by Oscar de la Renta.