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Saturday, September 11, 2010

BCBG MAX AZRIA SPRING 2011 RTW

ARIZONA MUSE (NEXT)

Sheer simplicity. At BCBG, Max and Lubov Azria continued the exercise in functional minimalism they began last Fall with a Spring parade of airy silk dresses and jumpsuits, both short and long, so light they very nearly threatened to float away. The show opened with a grouping in white that imperceptibly shifted to an ash gray and then cycled through a neutral rainbow before landing on black.

LISANNE DE JONG

Anything bright was relegated to a cameo appearance: a tiered overlay here, a single shock-pink frock there. These hot spots brought a point of difference into a potentially repetitive collection—as did the touches of femininity added by tonal embroidery and lace.

SIGRID AGREN

The latter was a standout on the finale dress, a long sheer tank that was foreshadowed by a lacy image printed elsewhere on silk. For a brand that can occasionally take a head-scratching direction, this was a happy little moment of serenity that seemed to please all assembled and that definitely has commercial legs.

MARIKE LE ROUX

SHU PEI QIN (NEXT)

MADDIE

MARIE MOREAU

CELINE VAN AMSTEL

LINNEA REGNANDER

SOPHIE SREJ

SIMONA ANDREJIC

ANDIE

DEBORA MULLER

SAMANTHA GRADOVILLE

BARBORA DVORAKOVA

LISANNE DE JONG

EMILY DiDONATO

NIMUE SMIT

SIGRID AGREN

KRISTINA ROMANOVA

ARIZONA MUSE (NEXT)

SHU PEI QIN (NEXT)

LINNEA REGNANDER

MARIE MOREAU

MARIKE LE ROUX

ANDIE

CELINE VAN AMSTEL

MADDIE

BARBORA DVORAKOVA

DEBORA MULLER

EMILY DiDONATO

SIMONA ANDREJIC

SOPHIE SREJ

NIMEU SMIT

LISSANE DE JONG

SIGRID AGREN

ARIZONA MUSE (NEXT)

MAX AZRIA

Thursday, September 10, 2009

BCBG Max Azria Spring 2010 Ready to Wear.

Patricia Van Der Vliet

A healthy front-row bloc of PYTs du jour at BCBG Max Azria usually sets off the fashion season's first paparazzi swarm.

Marike Le Roux

Today it was sister act Theodora and Alexandra Richards happily braving the flashes alongside Leigh Lezark, Solange Knowles, and teen queen Amanda Bynes. Appropriately, the clothes on the runway could have gone by the name of the latter's breakout movie, What a Girl Wants.

Dorothea Barth Jorgensen

What does a girl want? Well, for many, particularly the sector who follows the It-party-girl lead, the checklist is still short, body-con, and sexy in the eighties vein that has made stars out of Alexander Wang and today's Balmain.

Anastasia Kuznetsova

The husband-and-wife team of Max and Lubov Azria worked the look like a collage, piecing and tucking bright abstract florals into solid blacks, navies, and the odd Pepto pink.

Anya Kazakova

Ruched silks and tulle were tightly bandaged around the body, the effect made sexier still with sheer black insets. On the looser side, dresses that riffed on the T-shirt made a coherent and welcome counterpoint.

Jac

Every model carried a glossy metallic clutch, as if poised to stay out all night at a moment's notice. Sure, their proposition wasn't quite new, but the Azrias' trickle-down timing is right on. And after last season's concept-heavy offering, the show was a youthful breath of fresh air.