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Caroline Hedaya show @ Cielo

Met M at the Belvedere Beautiful Life  event: the last in a series of runway shows and parties hosted by emerging fashion talents. Tonight’s show featured the designs of Caroline Hedaya at Cielo, whose sunken dance floor was our onetime Monday night hangout.

The Caroline Hedaya label is actually the result of a collaboration between New York-based duo Caroline Hedaya and Donna Baxter. (Poor Donna — I wonder how that came about.) The friends, who met as students at FIT, debuted their first collection during 2005’s Olympus Fashion Week shortly after graduating.

As usual, the event was about two hours of open (vodka) bar, followed by fifteen minutes of parading models.

Unlike the last time, M and I stayed long enough to actually view the clothes — here, a couple of feminine, billowy frocks from Hedaya and Baxter’s Spring 2007 collection:

Backstage, the clothes rack awash in creams, beiges and blacks, and posted polaroids of the models in their ensembles.