Thom Browne's dark fairy tale closes New York Fashion Week - Fashion. The sensitivity is decidedly nineteenth-century, the mood romantic-dark.

Black velvet crows inlaid on the wool of a white coat; on a hand-woven tweed jacket the word Nevermore embroidered on the back. The skin is scratched as if the claws of the crow had passed through it, transforming it into a hat on the head of Anna Cleveland, the first model to come out on stage.