OK, sooooo, we didn’t exactly make it to all 200 plus shows at New York Fashion Week S/S 2011. But neither did you, right? Instead of wading through all the shows yourself or obsessively following the Twitter feeds of big name “editors” we decided show you a sampling of the goods and let you smile with delight or say, “hhhmmmmm” when confronted with a sartorial puzzle.

AND we know Fashion Week ended Thursday and that London Fashion Week is under way, and why haven’t we posted and Twittered frenetically during and the minute the shows were over? Well, first, we have pesky “real jobs” and second, we subscribe to the Tom Ford School of Disdain for Fashion Immediacy. He told WWD:

This fashion immediacy thing — yes, if you can order the clothes immediately, if you can see them and press a button and they can be shipped to your house, I get fashion immediacy.…I don’t get the need for this immediacy. In fact, I think it’s bad.

The way the system works now, you see the clothes, within an hour or so they’re online, the world sees them. They don’t get to a store for six months. The next week, young celebrity girls are wearing them on red carpets. They’re in every magazine. The customer is bored with those clothes by the time they get to the store. They’re overexposed, you’re tired of them, they’ve lost their freshness, you see somebody wearing it and you say, “Oh, that’s that jacket that was in blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.” Or [a] customer doesn’t want to wear that jacket that was in blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. In addition, all of the fast-fashion companies that do a great job, by the way, knock everything off. So it’s everywhere all over the streets in three months and by the time you get it to the store, what’s the point?

Preach, Tommy, preach! He’s right–the fashion vultures at Forever 21 and the like copy designs like crazy (which is why they get sued up the ying-yang) and put out copies way sooner than the six months the actual clothes you see on the runway show up in the stores. But we digress.

From what we’ve seen, this is what we have to look forward to this spring (or sooner if you shop fast fashion):

Sheer paneling: 3.1 Philip Lim, Richard Chai Love, BCBG

3.1 Phillip Lim

Richard Chai Love

BCBG Max Azria

Old school glamour: Carolina Herrera, Venexia,  Badgley Mischka

Carolina Herrera

Venexia

Badgley Mischka

Electric color pops: Z Spoke by Zac Posen, Cynthia Rowley

Z Spoke by Zac Posen

Cynthia Rowley

Retro styling: Marc Jacobs, Vena Cava

Marc Jacobs

Vena Cava

Fluid draping: Ports 1961, Costello Tagliapietra

Ports 1961

Costello Tagliapietra

Hip urban warrior: Diesel Black Gold, G-Star RAW, Nicholas K

Diesel Black Gold

G-Star RAW

Nicholas K

Fairy tale glamour: Monique Lhuillier, Marchesa, Oscar de la Renta

Monique Lhuillier

Marchesa

Oscar de la Renta

Effortless American chic: Donna Karan, Diane von Furstenberg

DKNY

Diane von Furstenberg

Sexy, sleek minimalism: Calvin Klein, Michael Kors

Calvin Klein

Michael Kors

Hhhmmmmm: Betsey Johnson, Jeremy Scott, Catherine Malandrino

Betsey Johnson

Jeremy Scott

Catherine Malandrino

What we would die to wear: Prabal Gurung, Derek Lam, Complex Geometries, Proenza Schouler

Prabal Gurung

Derek Lam

Complex Geometries

Proenza Schouler