By RACHEL DODES
New York
Ralph Lauren's runway is never about wild, needle-moving fashion. And his Fall 2010 collection of floor-sweeping velvet gowns, black beaded cocktail frocks and buttery shearling vests hewed to his familiar stance of merging trend with timelessness.
Backstage after the show, Mr. Lauren, clad in all black, said he had been thinking about balance. "This is about clothes that can go on forever—showing that versatility of being able to hit the young sexy downtown girls and uptown girls at the same time," he said.
The collection, which was shown to the music of Stevie Nicks, he said, "had a little bit of hippie-ness and romance…and I think a youngness and a contemporary-ness," he added. The show's tone is a departure from last season, when Mr. Lauren showed heavily distressed overalls, floral cotton shift dresses and pinstriped suits that appeared to draw inspiration from the Depression-era tale "The Grapes of Wrath."
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