Fashion designers continued their retreat from bling during New York Fashion Week’s Spring 2007 shows, but simple pendants, cuff bracelets and subtler jewels slipped past the velvet ropes.

About half the designers who showed at the tents in New York City’s Bryant Park from Sept. 8-15 sent jewelry down their runways. But instead of covering models in head-to-toe baubles, most fashion designers opted to finish an outfit with one or two well-placed jewels.

Spring 2007 Fashion Week Report