Ralph Lauren Collection Fall 2016 Black Textural Fringe Hi-Lo Skirt

Cowgirl Couture in a New York Minute They said Ralph had gone West. He didn’t just borrow a belt buckle or a tooled leather clutch. He drove the whole damn stagecoach straight into Madison Avenue and parked it under chandeliers. In Fall ‘16, Lauren unveiled his “September” Collection, a saloon-to-salon reinvention of the American frontier. It wasn’t a cowboy costume. It was couture dipped in saddle oil and moonlight. The kind of Western where the horses are black lacquer, the fringe is silk, and the stories are written in gold thread on the inside seams. The details, Darling: A divine blend of 70% viscose and 30% silk—smooth enough to slip through fingers, substantial enough to stop traffic. The embroidery is chenille soft, detailed, as if traced by lantern light. The fringe is scattered, deliberate, and quietly feral—moving with the wind, or a turn, or a glance. The movement is a performance, every sway a slow drumbeat. Western—but rewritten. The American West filtered through champagne and caviar, not prairie skirts and prairie dogs. It’s about power and sensuality—textured layers, fringe that could flirt or fight. Embroidered on a viscose-silk gauze that gently glows, and moves like a poem. High-low hemline. Architectural. Tiered. It moves as you do. The hem flits across polished floors, reflective, catching light from candles, chandeliers, or late-night neon. It’s not what you wear to be seen. It’s what you wear when you’re already unforgettable.