With all the drama Peter Som has been through lately (leaving Bill Blass and losing his own financial backing), everyone would understand if he sat out this season. But he took all those changes on the chin and whipped together a fall collection in less than two weeks, all the while focusing on the positive, or “my favorite things,” as he put it. To Som, that meant the bright side of his sporty classics, such as shift dresses, tweed jackets and tie-neck blouses, in a mash-up of color, texture and even tinsel galore. There were jacquard and tweed shot with metallic accents, a fils coupes “T-shirt” with silver Chantilly lace sleeves, and fox furs dipped in pink, blue and purple for an iridescent finish. It was eclectic, and when styled together, a little too eccentric. But taken individually, each piece had the kind of special details that could inspire a girl to spend.



