Two shows displayed a surprising deep black and bright white trend. The Lacoste show on Saturday at Lincoln Center presented all black and all white sport ensembles as well as other trends. The show opened with a few all white outfits. The collection also showed olive greens with safari-esque jewelry, and plainer looks with a pop of orange lipstick. The show was men and women's clothing. It premiered Lacoste's new jewelry line by Bijoux Group, a French firm that has done jewelry lines for brands such as Yves St. Laurent, Christian Lacroix, and others. The Tess Giberson, also on Saturday, showed the contrasting black and white trend. White blouses under black jackets and even black and white polka dot skirts. The collection's biggest diversion from black and white was a graphite color. The line looked comfortable with draped fabrics, sweaters, leather, satin pieces and twill. A whole section of about ten mannequins was devoted to all black looks. About five mannequins were all white looks. Seems as though for spring, you don't have to be bold to be fashionable.

I walked out the front door this morning and felt it. Chilly still, with wind that still holds a slight wintry bite and the damp suggestion of spring. I don't know if everyone else in the northeast feels the same, but this is the time of year that my hair gets a little nutty. My mane is just confused, is all ... it's half frizzing with winter static that mysteriously clings to my coat and refuses to hold volume under the slight humidity. It looks as if I half-finished a blow dry or a brush job, so I usually go for the stringy Olsen look. Sometimes, even the purposefully undone look looks like too much of an accident. Fortunately the spring runway psychics understand me, and they provided a variety of headbands to distract you from my follicle follies.

Last fall, New Yorkers were bowled over by the giant white spaceship that landed in Central Park. It was a Day the Earth Stood Still moment, and no less arresting once the doors opened to reveal a collaborative art exhibit from a variety of the world's most current, avant-garde experimentalists. Funded by Chanel, "Mobile Art" stood for just over a month and gave visitors a taste of whatever the MoMA and New Museum didn't already show, as well as New York's strongest taste thus far of the artistic offerings of Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid. That is, until Lacoste stepped in (literally).