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New York Fall Fashion Week 2007: Dragana Ognjenovic

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For her spring 2007 line, Dragana Ognjenovic injected her playful genius into staid forms through the use of pleating. For the fall, Dragana turned her attention to seams, where she once again transformed classic pieces into shrewdly inventive designs through her technical skill.
Ognjenovic keeps to a strictly black and cream [...]

By Ali | Posted February 12, 2007 in Fashion Week Coverage | Comments (0)

New York Fall Fashion Week 2007: Jayson Brundson

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Australian designer Jayson Brundson presented his tribute 40’s glamour with cinema- and jazz-inspired frocks and eveningwear.
Some pieces were a bit too close to the era, unable to arrive at modern differentiation. Yet the incorporation of cubist elements kept the collection from sinking into nostalgia.
The collection presented variety while remaining within [...]

By Ali | Posted February 10, 2007 in Fashion Week Coverage | Comments (0)

New York Fall Fashion Week 2007: Zac Posen

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For his 2007 fall collection, Zac Posen revisited the classic archetype of femininity: the floral form. Posen’s designs attained depth through floral-inspired contours, with stalk-like silhouettes and fanned or petalled skirts. While the flower has served as a central theme to many a designer’s collection, Posen’s wunderkind vision renewed [...]

By Ali | Posted February 9, 2007 in Fashion Week Coverage | Comments (0)

New York Fall Fashion Week 2007: Custo Barcelona

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An arts and crafts influence pervades the Custo Barcelona fall collection, themed “graphic and colour in progress.” It seems as though the Dalmau brothers imagined a creative youth, trapped at grandma’s house for summer vacation and in need of an artistic outlet—she unearths grandma’s dusty sewing machine and rips [...]

By Ali | Posted February 9, 2007 in Fashion Week Coverage | Comments (0)

New York Fall Fashion Week 2007: Michon Schur

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Stephanie Schur’s fall line was sweet and lovely, but lacked the artistic execution of her spring 2007 line. While Schur continued with a floral motif, it rested largely on prints—Japanese ink swirls in the formation of leaves, lavender watercolors, and velvet burnout floral ringlets—to convey the theme in a conspicuous [...]

By Ali | Posted February 8, 2007 in Fashion Week Coverage | Comments (0)