A New Chapter for Oscar de la Renta Begins With Baby Steps!

And so a page was turned.

Tuesday evening, as the sun set over Bryant Park, the British designer Peter Copping made his debut as creative director of Oscar de la Renta. Long before the official show time of 6:30 p.m., the Town Cars had begun to pull up at the entrance, their fur-clad occupants spilling out in anticipation.

Few designers on the Fashion Week schedule had been as much a part of the social and celebrity fabric of the city as was Mr. de la Renta, who died last October after anointing Mr. Copping his heir, and it seemed half of New York took the elevator up to the 25th floor of 11 West 42nd Street to shoehorn their way onto already-packed benches to see what would happen next.

Mica Ertegun and Mercedes Bass were

 there, squished in next to Annette de la Renta, Mr. de la Renta’s widow. So was Nancy Kissinger. Taylor Swift, whom Mr. de la Renta had dressed for the Met ball last year, was across the way, next to the model Karlie Kloss and Eliza Bolen, Mr. de la Renta’s stepdaughter, who almost ended up on the lap of the man next to her, there was so little room.

“In this, my first collection, I hope to honor Oscar’s legacy and also to start a new chapter for the house,” read the note from Mr. Copping, left in a folder on every place.

In 55 looks, he achieved the first aim, and began to inch his way toward the second.

From the opening knee-length jet-embroidered black coat over an ivory crepe dress, a style synonymous with Mrs. de la Renta, to the tweed skirt suits, the color-block mink coats, frilly cocktail dresses and full-bore red-carpet entrance-makers — even the hair twisted up into a neat chignon — this was a sartorial treatise conceived entirely in the vernacular of the house.

What to Expect on Day 7 of Fashion Week?

Homestretch, fans!

It’s Day 7 of Fashion Week — soon to be renamed Frozen Fashion Week — but New York is still going strong. Thank goodness for Michael Kors. Even in his fall collections, the perma-tanned designer is known for bringing in a little sun. He’ll start the day off at 10 a.m.

Where to go from there? To playtime at Jeremy Scott — whose show this season is called “Dolly Pattern,” spelled out on its invitation with kiddie alphabet blocks — or sterner stuff at Jason Wu’s latest collection for Boss.

Do you take your fashion elegant and aisle ready? Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig’s latest Marchesa frocks, at 5 p.m., should suit you fine. Or maybe pop and colorful is more your style? For you, Alexis Bittar. The jeweler is celebrating 25 years of working in Lucite tonight with a presentation of his latest, and with a little help from his friends. He commissioned the artists Mickalene Thomas, Natasha Law, Cordy Ryman and Juliette Losq to create their own works in the material, to be auctioned off in support of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center. (Not invited to the presentation? You can still bid, online.)

The end is drawing near, but not before one of the week’s most anticipated shows: Proenza Schouler, which hits the runway tonight at 8. Anyone who hasn’t frozen solid by then will repair to Miu Miu, which is making an unusual cameo on the New York Fashion Week party schedule, not with a collection but with a film: the ninth and latest in its “Women’s Tales” series, by the Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher.

-- New York Times