Elie Tahari had his lady’s best interests in mind while designing his fall collection. “New York is an urban jungle we live in,” he said during his presentation on Tuesday. “A lady needs protection, needs to dress warm, needs to look good and still be current.”
A rotating platform featured models posing amid a jungle-theme set. Tahari’s focus was squarely on functional yet stylish outerwear — a white tweed and faux-fur combo, an oversize black-hooded curly shearling, a forest-green double-faced wool style with black rabbit-fur paneling — as he kept the underpinnings simple and basic. A black double-faced wool and a black shearling number with pony-combo sleeves was modeled by none other than Carmen Dell’Orefice. Collectively, the looks encompassed the “armor against the city’s changing environment” that Tahari cited on his show notes.