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   Shin Choi stayed with blue tartan patterning and black for many of her outfits. Again, elegance was the key word here, with a collection rooted in the past (Virginia Woolf's Clarissa Dalloway) but with an urban touch. Cashmere and woollens were offset with leather and suedes. Lucire noted her grey cocktail dress which looked ready to take on New York (far more than Seoul) while the Choi beret could be imagined back east (we mean east Asia) in giving the designer's native Korean wearers a dash of the other end of the Eurasian lands.
   To prove that you can always get away by breaking all the rules, there was Cynthia Steffe.
   She might not have gone for the traditional elegance of Kors, but Lucire welcomed the variety that she injected to the otherwise all-black proceedings (and the Americans aren't even in to rugby). Saucy senoritas came out with chokers and ruffles made a comeback in this fall–winter 2002–3 collection from the designer who herself once made People's top 50 most attractive people.
   Going way out, Jeremy Scott astounded audiences with one of the most creative and highly charged collections during the week. Mini-dresses and way-out collars appeared in wool and leather. The Missouri-born designer, who had made his name in Paris, had the most colourful collection all week and never mind impracticality. Every fashion week needs a Jeremy Scott, débuting and daring.

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Going way out, Jeremy Scott astounded audiences with one of the most creative and highly charged collections during the entire week.