Michael Kors offers sporty glam at Fashion Week

Kors starts his fashion shows at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week with a couple — men's and women's clothes on the runway — and for this fall season they were in his-and-her red-check outfits. He wore a tartan plaid coat and checkered trousers, she had on a fringed blanket coat in the lumberjack-style check pattern also known as buffalo check, with a cashmere tweed sweater and cashmere short shorts.

Their wardrobe, which also included a sexy, luxe glove-leather trenchcoat for her, and suede utility pants for him, was all about "sporty American glamour," Kors explained.

"I thought about the '30s and those glamorous Hollywood couples — the Clark Gables and Carole Lombards," he said in an interview backstage.

Modern jet-setters want clothes for a life that is sometimes sporty, sometimes dressy, but always sophisticated. There was a loose ski motif through this collection, although Kors said he was more concerned with the apres-ski life at the lodge that he favors more than the slopes themselves.

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