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Girls, it’s that point in Fashion Week when it’s time to get your trends down! We’ve spied a few common threads tying together some top name Fall 2013 collections, and here’s few tips before you get your shopping on — think reds, think textures, think metallics!

We saw red on the runway as early as The Red Dress Collection, and it just keeps coming…

Edun did reds darkly, mixing in bruise-y and punch tones of the hue du season

Max Azria’s BCBG line showed us how to layer up on textures, and we caught more “polished edgy” combos at Edun — helloooo, leather and tweed — très rawk! Edun also worked some heavy flashes of night-owl worthy silver into the mix…

Full-body splash of silver at Edun

Who else shined out? Earthy tones and neutrals collided with sparkling futuristic metallics at Kenneth Cole. His city-warrior wear manages to mix layered textures and mega metallics in a way that looks ready to step right from runway to sidewalk. Major urban edge! Peek it…

Future-treated earth tones at Kenneth Cole

Mixing textures and shine at Kenneth Cole

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Guess who we caught up with backstage at Edun? That’s right — husband of label mastermind Ali Hewson — aka Bono.

Edun’s Ali Hewson & husband Bono

Though he swerved modest when describing his personal style (“I’d say… low”), and offered that he knows nothing about fashion (“I feel like an intruder here [at Fashion Week].”), well… we say the iconic singer proved to know quite a bit, starting with this take on Ali — “She knows what she’s talking about.” We agree. We also agree with Bono’s bon mots on the topics of fashion:

ON THE FASHION INDUSTRY & PREPARATION BEHIND EDUN’S FALL 2013 LINE:
“… Fashion… wow. … it’s really tough. You gotta really believe in what you’re doing.”

“You have to be fearless. And you have to go for something new. And if you go for something new, then people may not get it.”

ON WIFE ALI HEWSON’S INTERPRETATION OF EVOLVING TRENDS:
“… You have this sort of pseudo-glamour thing going … And then you have the reaction to that … this sort of grunge-y, anti-glamour school … and she’s found some kind of hybrid … it looks very fresh to me.”

Edun on the runway

ON MUSIC & FASHION… AND HIS ROLE IN IT:
“There’s always been a relationship, even if it’s an anti-fashion stance.”

“What do I know? I had a mullet, you know what I mean?”

That mullet in the 80s? Forgiven.