Simone Rocha RTW Fall 2014

Simone Rocha tapped into a rugged, yet regal, vein with her beautiful fall collection. "Elizabethan" and "rebellious" were influences that the designer cited in her spare show notes, and those ideas emerged in dresses with poufy knee-length skirts that nodded to crinolines. Rocha worked them in both black wool and a shiny khaki snakeskin-printed leather, adding rows of chunky amber-bead embroidery sometimes at the hip, other times at the neck.