It is safe to say that being a model at the Carlos Miele Fall/Winter 2009 show was not an enviable job.  Besides the obvious ordeal of walking in five-inch heels along what usually amounts to a plank, the girls also had to cope with walking around a live guitarist, Max de Castro, who strummed along up, down and across the runway, seemingly oblivious to the action around him. 

The famed guitarist himself—clad in a pair of absurd drop crotch jeans and rocking a head full of dreads was out of place with the sophisticated and elegant clothes that shared the runway.  Indeed, the refined collection harkened back to couture techniques with exquisite pleating like on a gold silk charmeuse bolero that chicly topped a classically feminine long red silk taffeta dress. 

The clothes were definitely for a woman of a certain age—one who confidently navigates charity galas and lunch with the ladies on the Upper East Side, pulling her blue fox patchwork shrug just around her as she strides in and out of black town cars. 

Adrien Field

Images courtesy of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week