NYFW Fall 2016 Day 4: Jill Stuart, Suno

From a cool-girl staple to an ethnically-inspired award-winner, NYFW Fall 2016 just keeps moving forward

From the LifeMinute Team

Febrary 15, 2016

The fashion flock weighs in on Day 4's fabulous fashion and beauty.

Scene: Jill Stuart

Downtown meets classic. This is the look Jill Stuart has been serving up since 1993, when pieces of her eponymous collection were featured in the movie Clueless. The brand is sold at her SoHo flagship, in major department stores, and in Asia, where it grosses over $100 million annually. This season veered away from her signature frills, toward a sleeker silhouette.

"The girls who wear them have an underground elegance, a lush style and a touch opulence and they love to mix it all up," she says.

Today's top starlets agree: "You know I'm a big fan of Jill Stuart. Her clothes have always been quintessentially New York and they are clothes I coveted when I first moved here," says actress Zoe Kazan.

The hair was minimalistic as well. "We're creating a '70s psychadelia with the hair. Girls just have to look supercool, and we're keeping it a little bit flatter on the top, then we're putting a nice 's' shaped wave into the rest of the hair, says stylist John Pecis.

Scene: Suno

To many, the name Suno is synonymous with ethically-sourced prints. The designers, Max Osterwies and Erin Beatty, source their fabrics from Kenya, India, Peru and New York, utilizing the local talent from each locale and taking inspiration from the culture. They were the winner in the 2013 Vogue/CFDA Swarovski Award for Womenswear.

"It's undermined, a little subversive. A Fall color palette with a few weird pops. Sparks of mustard, kind of bright red, and a lot of metallic. So we really started with these more traditional fabrics and then we twisted them. We wanted her to feel like she had been hiking in the islands and her hair to feel like it had been influenced by another culture in some way," says the designers Max Osterweis and Erin Beatty.