Fashion Week: Nanette Lepore colors her world

NEW YORK (AP) — In a season full of color, Nanette Lepore’ss runway was one of the brightest of them all.

Each look Wednesday at the Lincoln Center tents was a more cheerful shade of tangerine, yellow or pink than the one before it. As she moved toward the finale, she mixed them all together in stripes.

All this was set to live music: Sam Bisbee and his five-piece band provided a nice change to the usual thumping runway music during the last seven days of spring previews for fashion editors, stylists and retailers.

Lepore wisely kept the rest of the silhouette crisp and clean, so there wasn’t too much going on. She favored full skirts and shorts, although there was a series of scuba-inspired, slim-fit dresses, or for a twist, there was a scuba top paired with a very feminine, more forgiving lilac-net skirt that had an orange underlayer peeking through.