Too much inpsiration?

Fashion week has just ended and I have been looking at the photos of the shows and feeling and odd combination of excitement and disconnect.   I am terribly excited about several things I have seen for next fall, but next  fall is still several months away and I have never been particularly good at sewing a season ahead, much less two seasons.

Secondly I am having trouble reconciling the things I see and add to my inspiration file.  The spring collections are long forgotten, and absent from my computer due to the October crashes except for a couple of Chado Ralph Rucci items I printed out for my photo collage.  My thoughts of spring mostly revolve around the couture collections, which did not inspire in terms of practical wardrobe items but did inspire pure dream fantasy clothing lust — the kind of clothes I would wear in my dreams if I were a princess.

So how do I reconcile the over-the-top fantasy images of the Dior Spring Couture show, which I loved, with its combination of Madame Butterfly and My Fair Lady fantasy extravaganzas: (all photos courtesy of www.style.com with the exception of the last one which is www.mbfashionweek.com)

With the almost anti-fashion simplicity of the Marc Jacobs fall collection, which I adored instantly:

Or with some of the other fabulous fall finds, like the fabulous collection Isabel Toledo did for Anne Klein

or a beautiful collection from Bill Blass:

There are many more from a collection of designers.

Next fall is months away, and I went through a long period where I wasn’t interested in clothes, much less sewing (there the truth is finally out) but that is not the case now.  I have enough pictures saved on my computer to clothe the entire female population of Hyde Park.  And I want to sew them all, even though the pattern companies won’t have anything out until the fall of 2008.  But the nice thing about this year is that a lot of the silhouette’s are basic and classic, so I have a starting point.

But do I sew spring? or for fall and winter?  And if so for which fall and winter?  I am thinking of a few knit tops and skirts to throw in some quick simple things.  I also am thinking about coats again (you thought I had forgotten) as well as other projects. 

I’m not sure I have a plan, but I do have inpsiration.  Now just to put on the blinders and focus.