NEW YORK FASHION WEEK AW12: THE STORY SO FAR...

Posted by Bethan Holt, Fashion Junior at Large, with assistance from Joshua Drew

New York Fashion is in full, fabulous swing. Here at FEAL, we reckon this is looking like a stand out season for New York. We spent the weekend keeping tabs on all the best backstage shots, hair and beauty looks and front row line-ups so here are a few of our highlights so far. We have everything from Ming Dynasty warriors at Jason Wu to Victoria Beckham's Harper bag, we saw that one coming roughly six months ago. Enjoy!

THURSDAY - DAY 1:

Colour blocking at BCBG Max Azria courtesy of catwalking.com

Front row fur stole at Max Azria

A beautiful art deco ticket for the Honor show

Hair and beauty at Creatures of the Wind courtesy of Eva Chen 

FRIDAY: DAY 2

The model line-up at Peter Som 

Make-up sketches by Tom Pecheux at Peter Som

Copper and teal at Pamela Love

Smokey entrance at Jason Wu's show, inspired by the Ming dynasty and Chinese warriors

High ponytails and heavy embellishment at Jason Wu

Moodboard backstage at Jason Wu

Jason Wu's 'Daphne' bag- we'll have one in every colour

The Delevingne sisters have a growl backstage at Jason Wu

Olivia Palermo sits front row at Rebecca Taylor

Backstage at Helmut Lang

Helmut Lang's red marbled prints echo an emerging hot and fiery theme for AW12...

Wedges at Helmut Lang

At Tommy Hilfiger, the set was inspired by Central Park, an all-American scene from an all-American designer....

Central Park recreated inside at Tommy Hilfiger

Swarovski elements featured at Jen Kao (images courtesy of Swarovski)

One of the best rucksacks we've seen...

Swarovski elements featured at Jen Kao

SATURDAY: DAY THREE

The Prabal Gurung invite 

Retro design for Porter Grey whose invite was in the style of a telegram

Nikki Reed and Olivia Palermo took front row seats at Jill Stuart

Blue/ Brown eyes at Prabal Gurung

Coco Rocha was observing, rather than walking, the Prabal Gurung show

Beautiful prints plus ornamental shapes at Prabal Gurung....

Ivory and gold form at Prabal Gurung (catwalking.com)

And something completely different a sheer, white, feathery red carpet confection...

Backstage at Prabal Gurung

Fierce boots at Herve Leger...

 Herve Leger

 Anna Wintour sat front row at Prabal Gurung

Classic Alexander Wang- slick and minimal

Aila Wang turned up in next season ready to cheer her Uncle Wang on. Cute.

Leather outerwear was Alexander Wang's AW12 strong point.

Gisele made a rare catwalk appearance at Wang  Courtesy of SF Chronicle.

SUNDAY: DAY FOUR

Victoria said the collars were inspired by Romeo's baseball kit - she's surrounded by sportsmen, that Victoria Beckham...

blue vs. burgundy backstage at Victoria Beckham.

To our great surprise (not): A/W 2012 handbags named 'Harper' at Victoria Beckham- 

Will there EVER be a better front row than this?

 David Beckham and Anna Wintour

VB and Christian Louboutin collaborated on some VERY Beckham-y boots.

Christian Louboutin designed the footwear at Victoria Beckam 

But there were also flat bikers, more David than Victoria... 

BIker boots at Victoria Beckham (image from catwalking.com)

VB's ticket- her diffusion line Victoria, Victoria Beckham is showing on Wednesday

Highlights at Derek Lam were the ditsy prints and knitted jumpers over evening skirts...

Smokey Burgundy eyes backstage at Derek Lam  

 Derek Lam's delicate print is one of our favourites florals so far

Daphne G gets prepped backstage at Derek Lam  

Monochrome print at Derek Lam  (from catwalking.com)

Model Shu Pei with her silver clutch backstage at DKNY 

Pretty t-bars backstage at Thakoon  

We have Solange Knowles jacket envy...AW12 looks like its going to be ALL about decorative jackets..

Solange Knowels turned up front row at DVF

All photos not credited are from the Twitter feeds of our favourite New York tweeters.. CHECK BACK FOR MORE TUESDAY!