Gobel is known for his high concept design execution, as witnessed with his Fall 2010 debut collection, and he certainly stays true to his craft and himself with his offering for Spring 2011.
Mr. Chakra began his career as a classic couturier and only last year did he step into the maelstrom of worldwide ready to wear. Mr Chakra has been showing at Paris Haute Couture since the 2002…
Having worked with black, white, and gray in her past collections, Ms. Gallagher really took a step forward with her use of blues and reds here. When paired with her modern patterns and slender…
If we learned one thing it is that Ms. Farncombe is not afraid to take on a tough to translate inspiration. She stated that the impetus for her Spring 2011 collection was a tornado-chasing trip.
This season the talented designer deviated from the expected, constructing a collection based more on flowing silk jacquard than knits. Mr. Bimbiloski cited his inspiration to be images from a…
Bartlett himself explains the collection: “I looked to the late 1970’s for this collection, really with my favorite models from that era like Rick Edwards and Jeff Aquilon. We have the whole khaki…
Simon Spurr’s Spring 2011 collection is clean, crisp, pressed, and well tailored. The understated Mr. Spurr creates for himself and his own closet, drawing inspirations from both Savile Row and…
George Esquivel may be the hottest American shoe designer working today. His couture pieces have graced the feet of dozens of some of the most famous men and women around. Fratelli Rossetti has been…
In Loris Diran’s Spring 2011 collection we see something of that new life energy. Admitting that his previous collections had been received as “too couture, too classic,” Diran has taken a lighter,…
Michael Angel is a smart man who does things smartly. A designer who has a known signature in his play with multi-hued prints, he constantly challenges himself to retain that calling card while…
Victor de Souza’s third collection continued the development of the construction techniques and fabric choices that are quickly becoming recognizable as his personal signatures.
It’s not easy to combine old school glamour with the more recent appearances in fashion of wedges and multi-strapped stilettos without getting lost in the contrived and, well, the overly trendy.
Warrior priestess, meet summer goddess of sun and sand.
It was very apparent from the show notes that the Guli Spring 2011 collection was designed in many ways to be an apparel ambassador for Uzbek culture.
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