New York Fashion Week 2011: Runway Report Card

More than 250 designers presented their 2012 spring-summer collections during the biannual event, which ran Sept. 8-15. TIME rates 10 of the week's most well-known labels

Rodarte

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Celebrity Clients
Natalie Portman, Kirsten Dunst, Keira Knightley

Famous Dress
The violet gown that Natalie Portman wore to collect her Oscar at the 2011 Academy Awards. The dress was reportedly a last-minute substitution for a Dior number, which Portman is said to have ditched following designer John Galliano's anti-Semitic remarks.

Snapshot of the Spring-Summer Collection
Vincent van Gogh paintings on clothes.

Grade
A

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