Shopping & Style
 

White Hot
Bags and shoes get a cool, clean injection of graphic chic.

Narciso Rodriguez
   
Strenesse
   
Jil Sander
   
Kooba
According to the designers, the all-white outfits they showed on the runways symbolize faith and hope. In real life, you'll need to have faith and hope in your dry cleaner if you want to wear it head to toe. Best to think of it as a cool tonic to mix with spring's peasant tops or classic-cut pants.

What to Buy
It turned up in nearly every collection, but white definitely says spring '02 when it comes trimmed with rows of little ruffles, as seen at Valentino, Richard Edwards, and Versace.

 

 

More in the Magazine
Get more sneak peeks at spring 2002 fashion in the November 12, 2001 issue of New York magazine.