Is this thing on?  Okay.

I must issue a call to action to the style mavens who congregated for New York Fashion Week.  Your fashion know-how is needed.

Today, Fashion Rollcall’s mission was to select the top three fashion designers from New York Fashion Week who made its Rollcall list.  Each exemplifies the American Designer at its finest.  From this list, two competitors will move on to Showdown where only one will emerge the winner.   

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, will be to help select the two who will enter  a  Showdown.  You’ve seen the collections, you’ve praised and recoiled, now it’s time to speak out.  Fashion is a democracy after all.  

The designers who made Rollcall have a common thread, a major use of accessories and/or color on the runway.  The accessories symbolized a strong and confident woman, while the use of color symbolized optimism for the future. 

The Showdown winner will be named tomorrow.  Please view the fall 2009 collections at  Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week.

The candidates are:

A.  Donna Karan                               

B.  Michael Kors                               

C.  Jason Wu