It’s all in the details: New York Fashion Week street style, in photos

See photos of fun details from the best New York Fashion Week street style looks.

Dominique Massicott wears Balenciaga earrings to the LaQuan Smith show. (Photographs by Sara Konradi for The Washington Post)
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Yeah, yeah, we’ve all heard Coco Chanel’s famous advice to the fashionable: Before leaving the house, “look in the mirror and take one thing off.” Simplicity is elegance, yada yada. But Chanel was a creature of Paris. In New York, more is more; the hues can always be a little brighter, the designs can always be a little louder, and of course your rainbow silk headscarf is simply crying out for a pair of jewel-encrusted sunglasses a la Elton John.

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The garments and accessories of this year’s fall New York Fashion Week faced all kinds of challenging conditions and climes. At Jason Wu’s outdoor show Sunday beside the Vessel in Hudson Yards, guests’ neatly styled blazers and shawls got unceremoniously chucked when crisp-fall-morning breezes stilled to glaring afternoon heat. Seats of pants and backs of shirts dampened as spectators packed into Willy Chavarria and LaQuan Smith’s evening shows (held in the huge, humid event spaces 23 Wall Street and 99 Scott, respectively). And moans of horror rose up from the line outside a Saturday Alice and Olivia presentation in Chelsea at the onset of an early-evening downpour; hems were muddied as many went scurrying like drenched mice to taxicabs, drenched in their dry-clean-only finery.

Nevertheless, fashion prevailed. Gentle breezes fluttered the full skirts of the models walking in Batsheva’s semi-impromptu Nolita street show; soft sunshine glinted off the skyscrapers and dappled the giant leather purses at Coach’s event on the High Line.

Below, see a sampling of New York Fashion Week’s street-style triumphs — complete with all the feathers, the rainbows, the blue suede shoes, the sunglasses worn at night and the faux fur in colors not found in nature befitting of an anything-goes city.