"When your halo slips for good, you'll have to wear your hood."

So sang British rocker Ian Brown — and so wrote designer Tim Coppens in his notes Sunday for a New York Fashion Week show of brightly colored outerwear and slouchy crew-and-shorts sets in white, gray and black for both men and women.

Coppens began as a womenswear designer but has focused of late on men. Now, he's looking to beef up his offerings for women.

In a backstage interview, he said his inspirations for spring were part Brown, part papery sleeves used to protect vinyl records when they're slipped into album covers — and part Manchester soccer fans who used to wear trenchcoats.

He used his signature "jungle sunrise" print but added blurred neons inspired by "basic laser lighting from back in the day."

Known for his use of technical fabrics, this time around there was a more fluid but still structured feel.

For women, he used tight flowing pleating that flowed at the back.

As for those trenchcoats, his bright reds and blues might be a welcome sight in menswear departments.

"There's not a lot of color around. I guess sneakers are colorful," Coppens mused.

And he didn't forget the hoods.

 

s?. <p? ?? lass=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; mso-line-height-alt:11.25pt;background:white'>While Shields appreciates Som's "mixed up things," she said her heart remains in thrift shops and vintage stores. She said they're easier to find in her part-time hometown outside of Albuquerque, New Mexico, than in Los Angeles, where she spends most of her time now.

 

Anything in particular she likes to wear in her down time?

"I'm not stuck on one thing," Shields said. "One day I'll wear a pair of leather pants and a blouse and then one day I'm going to be wearing a corseted dress from the '80s."

 

to;? mr? ?? m-alt:auto; mso-line-height-alt:11.25pt;background:white'>But producers claim lavender oil should simply be reclassified under agricultural products.

 

French producers don't oppose mentioning a potential allergy risk on their product, Vidal said, but they are adamantly against the kinds of dire labels that can be found on chemicals used in industrial processes, such as hydrochloric acid or cleaning products.

"There is a risk being linked to a chemical, and can lead to confusion for consumers," said Emilie Zamora, in charge of communication for the PPAM, the union of producers of perfume, aromatic and medicinal plants.

In addition, producers would themselves be responsible for carrying out the chemical analysis. Many are small farmers who couldn't afford the expensive procedure, Vidal said.

Lavender farmers have received support from Raymond Chaillan, a French perfume creator whose nose helped create the scents for Opium, Anaïs Anaïs and Parfum d'Hermes.

"This new directive will foreshadow the death of the plantations of lavender, of hybrid lavender, and the sage from the southeast of France, this agriculture of the dry mountains," Chaillan wrote in a statement to support lavender producers. "It will further reduce the perfumers' palette, limiting their creativity."