New York Fashion Week: Carlos Miele

Hilary Alexander reports from New York fashion week

The Brazilian designer Carlos Miele always seems to scale down his native exuberance when he shows in New York.

To be sure the clothes are luxe, elegant and sophisticated. But where is the carnival colour, the Rio spirit, the mood of the salsa and the samba?

Oversized cable knits, in cream and scarlet, worked asymmetrically across the body and with huge roll-collarsand pom-pom trims, came with pencil skirts.

Fitted cocktail dresses in red and saffron satin were cut to cling, with fine pleating and stitching achieving a corset-effect and floaty, long gowns in foliage-coloured chiffons featured dainty fingertip pleating.

Red carpet gowns included a white, full-skirted style with intricate black beding forming the single strap and extending down the bodice and a beautiful champagne ballgown in tulle with a gold-beaded front-panel.