Groovy alternative to Oscar de la Renta?

Thursday Styles section has a puff pastry piece on Michael Kors.

Here’s your speed-read skim highlights:

“highly marketable personality,”

improbably pink, cherubic face

folksy wit and fastidious eye

“We were competing for fashion victimhood.”

infatuation with the traditionalism of the Eastern Seaboard haute bourgeoisie

a near fetish of affecting a patrician ease

more than $600 million in wholesale revenues and 60 stores.

“This is his moment.”

cat spots and mink

alternately boyish and avuncular

“You think to yourself,” Mr. Kors marveled, “This is the very same dress that is hanging in the closet of Jessica Simpson and Barbara Walters.”