Zac Posen is always about feminine elegance of the structured kind, but his pre-fall 2013collection grabs the spotlight with even more drama than usual. With their billowed sleeves, fanned frills and fishtails, Posen’s gowns are not only red carpet worthy, they’re the kind that have a transformative power to draw a woman’s chin up high and install her with a kind of emphatic poise and grace. With these gowns crowing drama of operatic proportions, it’s no wonder the name Maria Callas came up as one of Posen’s inspirations.
