Original Article on The New York Times

var data;function jsonSlideshowCallback(response){data = response;}NYTD.options = {source: '+ data +', cropType: 'blog480', appendTo: 'embeddedSlideshow', showHeadLine: 'false'}Designers sent conflicting signals on their fall runways this week, offering a thoughtful, and sometimes unpredictable, mashup of textures and patterns, as often as not in the very same outfit. Herringbone tweeds kept company with chevron stripes; birds-eye weaves with elephantine plaids; pompoms with flannels and nomadic motifs.Ruth La Ferla reports on emerging trends from the shows to the streets. Yet all of it somehow coalesced. Marcus Wainwright and David Neville of Rag & Bone artfully combined blanket designs with floral tapestries; arrow prints with polka dots ...(read more)