All the bloggers fit to print are flocking to Fashion Week. We've teamed up with some stellar figures from the overcaffeinated bunch (mea culpa, I swear), and we're looking forward to sore thumbs along with the usual heart-racing coverage of shows and parties and DJs and models and socialites and ...

Oh. Right. The designers. There are so many. Forget about Ralph. From the hot pink angora swivel chair I'm sitting in, Heatherette has become establishment, though in a good way -- like Betsey and Isaac, the crinoline mascara grandparents. Meanwhile, here are two callouts from yesterday's unofficial official schedule, two of my favorite independent designers:

The Grey Ant show outside the  Soho Grand: Alterna-tenting but brought to you by Budweiser—and for a longer explanation check out our savvy sisters at Fashiontribes and a kind of hilariously knowing blog on fashionindie, where initial hmmm turns into a positive purr. I know I made some fun of designer Grant Krejecki's high-waisted pants, but his L.A.-based label has a canny finger on the pulse, and props for that. For fall he made ruffles new by smashing them down and dying them a dirty, sexy gray; they admittedly rocked with those infamous pants. (A girl's allowed to change her mind, though I'd still never wear them. And everyone calls them the infamous pants. They've become in icon of infamous, like Marilyn Monroe's infamous subway grate dress. I added Monroe because infamous and Marilyn are usually associated with this, um, not favorite of mine "shock-rocker.") I would wear what he showed yesterday, when  Krejecki sent models out rocking high-heeled tricked-out TEVAs. Proof that the third season doesn't get any less edgy, just sick-witty-pretty. See what I mean?

Another indie label I deeply heart: Rachel Comey, who's got some standout dresses for spring. She sent her models out wearing Buddy Holly glasses for that old-fashioned tailfins and soda-pop undertone. But she's no pop dummy: Her break came after David Bowie wore a shirt she designed on a big late-night TV appearance, and she went to art school for sculpture. See her good looks at secondcitystyle.

Among those chattering and ogling and thinking and writing as they do are the following footsore admirables, partnering with MOLI to make things as frenetic and amazing as possible (more will be listed later; I've got to go POWDER my Pantone Spring colors).:

omiru (which means "to see" in Japanese)

secondcitystyle (with a daryl k-loving editor in chief now based in NYC but from Chicago)

fashiontribes (the daily)

 
FYI: For the whole shebang in green, white, and gray (the colors of money, spring, and NYC?), see the official shebang site here.

For a fun-looking, easy-to-read, color-coded calendar of the whole 20-ring circus, incidentally with some green as well, seePaper mag's here.

Jana Martin is The MOLI View's contributing editor for Fashion & Design.