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The designers at underground collective Vaquera love to take pieces you already know — a go well with jacket, a nautical sweater, a white button-down, a bow — and exaggerate them to the purpose of absurdity. The intellectuality of the individual looks remains intensely watchable even if the ultimate cohesiveness of their collections isn’t always constant. That stated, we are never bored and do not dare look away. Belgian designer Raf Simons’ second show on the model once more reinvented the best of the founder’s very American imaginative and prescient while adding a forward-looking, European energy: advanced coloration blocking, creative cuts and silk-screened homages to Andy Warhol.

The Lacoste clothing assortment show for Fall Autumn Winter at New York style Week 2013 was sporting a couple of …