Amazing moments

WOW MOMENTS

Twice a year, Fashion Week becomes Fashion Month, as industry professionals travel between New York, London, Milan and Paris in search of big moments, big celebrities and great things to sell.

At the end of the season, we saw at least 100 fashion shows - an overwhelming accumulation of clothing and content. Here we've rounded up some of the standout pieces you might have missed: accessories with stories, shine, or just something special.

These are the things that stood out to us. made us sit straight in our seats along the tracks and say "Wow".

S. S.Daley Ears as accessories

LONDON - It all started with a playful preview. A pair of embroidered blue bunnies, galloping with their paws skyward, on a chic cream-collared polo shirt.

Then came a model with painted mustaches, a button nose and two large bunny ears, followed by later by another, then another. The final gift? The recurring "Bunny Boy" slogan on gilets and wool sweaters, or wild hare prints on oversized raincoats.

Steven Stokey-Daley has been on the fashion radar earlier this year when he won the LVMH prize, the most prestigious award for young talent in the industry. At his first S.S. Daley show since then, at London Fashion Week, rabbits were clearly on the brain.

The main inspiration for the collection, he later explained, was the forbidden lesbian love story between British writers Vita Sackville-West and Violet Trefusis. "Rabbit" was the code word the two women used in their letters to refer to their romance. Mrs Sackville-West had one of the finest country gardens in England, Sissinghurst Castle, and the trail of the S.S. Daley had grassy hills and was dotted with flowers. The public was particularly charmed by the bunny ears, covered in corduroy, leather and striped jersey. Not to mention the impeccable cuts for men and women, including calico and unsold hyacinth print twill. —Elizabeth Paton

Puppets and puppets "Gloves" made of stars

NEW YORK - Carly Mark, the creator of Puppets and Puppets, is known for enjoying a surreal "little joke." Her best-known creation is a black leather handbag slapped with a realistic resin sculpture of a chocolate chip cookie. (Every season, she releases new iterations; most recently, they've included green velvet and leopard-print bags affixed with bruised bananas, fried eggs, candy-coated brownies a la Little Debbie, and a landline phone.) /p>

But the best joke of her last show wasn't about a bag. It was on the arms of a model who sat "very patiently", Ms Mark said, for about three hours while hundreds of black star-shaped stickers were applied to her forearms. From afar, the stickers looked like opera gloves, a ubiquitous accessory on catwalks these days.

The conclusion was that they weren't stickers at all: they were were pimple patches from skincare company Starface, whose signature product is a tiny, star-shaped hydrocolloid patch that comes in different colors. Fans of the brand often wear them outside. (Or at least in selfies. The idea, as Fashionista said in 2019, is to "make acne Instagrammable.") The black version seen on the Puppets and Puppets fashion show isn't for sale yet.

Small star-shaped pimple patches made by skincare company Starface.

The buttoned gloves were born out of a desire to "elevate the collection in unexpected ways", said Ms Mark, who worked on t...