Richard Chai made his mark with an affinity for fabrics, working in everything from silk to Jacquards

and manipulating those in a multitude of feminine ways. For Fall, he took on wool boucle, patent

leather and cashmere, and applied folds, ruching, pleats and patchwork to all of the above. But the

individual looks, full of his signature origami and heavy on the layering of textures, felt like just that–

individual looks that happened to share the same runway, rather than one strong conceptual collection.