Yesterday I mentioned the hair and makeup for Cynthia Rowley's Fall @007 collection..I'll be going into that in more detail on the Advice Sisters Web Site in full features with "get the look" information for you.

Cynthia Rowley is model thin (maybe she was a model previously), and has the trim, slee, ageless look that women covet. Her collection is always youthful in spirit, but wearable by women who are more than girls, as well as chic young women. The clothes in this collection were meant to mirror the colors of the aurora borealis and that's not all...the styles were classic, but not quite....more "edgy" and "futuristic" than what first meets the eye. She is always mobbed by photographers and reporters, and is always patient and gracious with them. Here is she before the show.

It is SO not true that models don't eat! They just need something work tasting! Paul W. McGourty of Rady to Eat Catering & Take Away provided a tasty buffet for the models. He is located on Hudson Street in Soho (http://www.readytoeat.net/) The models were tucking into antipasto, little sandwiches, crositini with beef and cornichons, and more! (Here's paul below with some hot and bite-sized yummies).

The runway had Sherwin Williams colors in some sort of cellophane, submerged in boxes with lucite covers, making a colorful walkway for the models. And there was color in this collection, too. There was a dress with a trompe l'oeil braid painted on it, featuring jeweled braids as necklaces (and the model was wearing a braid too, of course). I have photos of this I am saving for the big feature on the Advice Sisters Web Site in a few weeks. I particularly liked a short, shiny, black satin dress heavily detailed with trapunto stitching and a short, pink metallic sheath. Metallic skirts shown with black tights with part-colored metallic shimmer. Naturally, the dresses were all short, not a drippy dress in the bunch!

After the show (which was met with great enthusiasm by the audience in the packed Gotham Hall, I ventured upstairs for the press preview of the AVON Cynthia Rowley Color Collection. Wait until you see how cute the compacts are!!!! *check out my Advice Sisters web site FEATURES page soon....