Trendy: Fall Buying 13

Yes, you heard right. We were up in NYC again, that's two times in less than 5 days, if you're counting. This time however we traveled there for our fall 2013 buying trip. It's always fun seeing the fashions before the rest of the public but since we're between friends I'll give you a glimpse of what's to come.  Consider yourself lucky that you didn't have to wake up at 6am for this preview.

So let's talk trends...

Zippers- It appears the exposed zipper is having a moment. From dresses to shirts to pants, everything had a zipper showing. We even saw bright colored exposed zippers. What's interesting though is that he majoring of these zippers had no functional purpose. We saw an SW3 jacket with 4 zippers on it, none of which actually zipped up.

Neoprene- We saw this trend for spring but now we are seeing this surfer look carried over to fall. While we spotted it at designers like Robert Rodriguez, Tibi certainly took the cake and neoprened everything! If they could neoprene the street signs they would, I swear.

Leather- Another trend from spring, leather is here to stay. Leather pants, leather dresses even leather sweaters. Makes for hard washing (more specifically dry clean only) but we love this luxe look.

Sweatsuits- Don't worry the Juicy Couture velour track suit isn't back, although I kind of wish it was. They were comfy people! This time around designers are created dressy sweat pants with scrunched bottoms for going out and sweatshirts with elaborate details and graphic animal prints for what I like to consider relaxed luxury.