Kelly Osbourne set the tone for Betsey Johnson’s fall 2010 show, with her eye behind a black bandana face mask as she kicked up dust on the dried-hay runway. Despite the snow in New York, Betsey Johnson’s concept took her audience to the hot, dry tumbleweed gulches of the wild wild west, with cowboys-’n'-Indians, sheriffs and jailbirds. The line-up for Johnson’s show included models, as well as members of her staff and employees from her store. The shoot-em-up theme was punctuated by frilly, girly touches out of some psychedelic saloon. Johnson ramped up the color offerings with outer layers in rich black-patterned fuchsia, vivid electric blue, and candy-apple red. Throughout the show there were occasional nods to heritage: a hip-hugging gray sweater-dress, charmingly cinched with a holster belt, reincarnated a classic zoo-animal silhouettes pattern from the Betsey Johnson 60s.

In the closing act, Johnson sent one final model walking out wearing big red wax lips – a flourish used in fashion show last year by the late Alexander McQueen – and bearing a hand-painted sign reading “LONG LIVE MCQUEEN,” which drew heartfelt applause from the crowd. The clothes from her latest collection are now available in her stores nationwide. What do you think?