Scorecard | Men’s Spring/Summer Fashion 2009

Welcome to Scorecard, Round 2, our seasonal wrap-up of fashion’s critical winners and losers. Just as the shows start to fade from memory, we bring together critics’ sound bites and runway images for nearly every men’s show. We’ve taken excerpts from reviews from The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, the men’s-wear trade weekly DNR and men.style.com. You can read the fall 2008 edition of the men’s Scorecard here.

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Band of Outsiders | Designer: Scott Sternberg | slide show

• “There were no rips in Sternberg’s stuff, but the spirit of warped prep lived on.” (men.style.com)
• “like going to the Apple store — a big white box where a whole lot of the same thing is shown over and over in multiple displays” (The New York Times)

Fashion Week Catch-Up | Suzy Menkes, Eric Wilson and Cathy Horyn

Suzy, Eric and Cathy: Your New York Times family fashion critics. (Getty/Getty/AP)

Mercedez-Benz Fashion Week blow you by? With the number of runway shows checking in around 120 and the collapsing financial institution count somewhere around three, compounded by all those flutes of concomitant champagne (but who’s counting those?), it’s easy to lose one’s head. Time to call on the inimitable wisdom of the critics, we think. Here is what the International Herald Tribune fashion critic and T columnist across the pond, Suzy Menkes, and our colleagues from two floors down in the New York Times Style department, Eric Wilson and Cathy Horyn, thought about the forecast for spring ’09.

Alexander Wang: “had the moment-to-moment quality of young urbanites who buy on Friday to wear on Saturday” — CH
Anna Sui: “vivacious in color” — SM
Band of Outsiders: “like going to the Apple store — a big white box where a whole lot of the same thing is shown over and over in multiple displays” — EW
Barbara Tfank: “classic glamour, elegantly updated” — SM

Chics & Freaks | Chic-y Friday

Throughout fashion week, the legendary Facehunter prowled the streets of New York for style creatures of every stripe. The looks below were spotted Friday at the Donna Karan show and Saturday on the street in the West Village.

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Photo of the Moment | Zac Posen, Thursday, 9:11 P.M.

Zac Posen, Thursday, 9:11 P.M.

Scenes from the photographer Eric Ray Davidson’s exclusive fashion week diary.

Photo of the Moment | Tommy Hilfiger, Thursday, 5:41 P.M.

Tommy Hilfiger, Thursday, 5:41 P.M.

Scenes from the photographer Eric Ray Davidson’s exclusive fashion week diary.

Model-morphosis | Liu Wen

The photographer Greg Kessler captures the constantly changing faces of fashion week. Here, the model Liu Wen gets reinvented 10 times.

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Photo of the Moment | Tommy Hilfiger, Thursday, 4:49 P.M.

Tommy Hilfiger, Thursday, 4:49 P.M.

Scenes from the photographer Eric Ray Davidson’s exclusive fashion week diary.

Chics & Freaks | Casual Thursday

Throughout fashion week, the legendary Facehunter will be prowling the streets of New York for style creatures of every stripe. The looks below were spotted Wednesday at the Vera Wang, VPL by Victoria Bartlett, Calvin Klein Collection and Wood Wood shows and at the tents in Bryant Park.

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Photo of the Moment | Phi, Thursday, 11:23 A.M.

Phi, Thursday, 11:23 A.M.

Scenes from the photographer Eric Ray Davidson’s exclusive fashion week diary.

The Politics of Style | Model for President

The model Agyness Deyn shows her support for Jessica Stam. (Jon Gurinsky)

Of all the freebies given out at fashion week — canvas bags, Champagne, control-top hosiery — the winner of the popular vote seems to be the faux political buttons distributed by the Web site Modelinia. Phrases like Vote for the Stam, Cast a Tally for Ally and Coco 2008 aim squarely at those who speak fashion, like