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"  In February, the willowy Belgian model Hanne Gaby Odiele showed up for her fitting with Derek Lam in the oppressive cold of winter wearing, as he remembers it, a pair of men&amp;#039;s boxer shorts and a loose fisherman&amp;#039;s sweater. &amp;quot;There was such an irreverence about it,&amp;quot; says Lam, &amp;quot;but it was still obviously very thought out.&amp;quot; For Lam, it was the kind of carefree, cosmopolitan look that inspired his new diffusion line, 10 Crosby\u2014named after the street address of his company&amp;#039;s SoHo headquarters. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ll often look out the window of my office and just get inspired by the people walking by,&amp;quot; Lam says. (Indeed, Odiele lives a few blocks away.) &amp;quot;With the main collection, I may be inspired by what I&amp;#039;m reading or something I see in a movie, but with 10 Crosby, it&amp;#039;s really about `How do people live their lives?&amp;#039;&amp;quot; Lam answers the question with a collection that is at once cool and utilitarian, playful and grown-up\u2014incorporating figure-grazing, patterned silk separates, spirited tomboy tweed suiting, and the wide-legged trousers that defined his fall collection. The designer&amp;#039;s favorite look is a billowing, color-block kimono and pant that prays at the altar of the widely adored pajama-dressing trend. &amp;quot;It has this very honest practicality,&amp;quot; says Lam. Naturally, when it came time to shoot the collection&amp;#039;s lookbook, the designer not only cast Odiele but asked her to help style it. &amp;quot;I did a little bit higher here, a little bit lower there,&amp;quot; Odiele says, motioning with her hands to show how she adjusted hems and fit. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s very relaxed, but if you&amp;#039;re home and someone knocks on your door, you&amp;#039;re ready to go out.&amp;quot; After all, 10 Crosby, which starts at $225, is a diffusion line in name only. &amp;quot;I didn&amp;#039;t want this collection to be about basics,&amp;quot; Lam says. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s definitely about fashion.&amp;quot;          Bartlett with models at her spring 2010 show; Odiele in the 10 Crosby resort lookbook; which she helped style; Looks from VPL X. By Extension  &amp;quot;Everyone loves our bras, so we thought, Let&amp;#039;s do a bra that has a dress attached to it,&amp;quot; Victoria Bartlett says of the resort collection for her new secondary line, VPL X ($250 to $360), which extends her color-block neo-girdle bras into full garments. From a rack of graphic dresses and tanks, Bartlett pulls a minidress with navy elastic and military-green viscose jersey. &amp;quot;You can&amp;#039;t necessarily wear Spanx or a slip out, but this you can,&amp;quot; says Bartlett, echoing the founding philosophy of eight-year-old VPL (&amp;quot;Visible Panty Line&amp;quot;): Exhibit that which is usually hidden. &amp;quot;VPL has always been about underwear as outerwear and the liberation of women.&amp;quot; In other words, don&amp;#039;t burn your bra; turn it into a dress and wear it out. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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