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Thursday, March 3, 2011

Paris Fashion Week Day 2: Karlie Kloss, Toni Garrn, Jourdan Dunn, Sessilee Lopez

from left to right: Karlie Kloss, Toni Garrn, Jourdan Dunn, and Sessilee Lopez

Friday, September 10, 2010

CHRISTIAN SIRIANO SPRING 2011 RTW

CHRISTIAN SIRIANO SPRING 2011 RTW

A certain sector of experienced showgoers might have been shocked by the mob scene at Christian Siriano. The "hot tranny mess" reality guy? Yes, him. And while today's crowd, assembled to see the Project Runway winner's fifth collection, likely owed its bulk to fans and fashion tourists, it also included Saks Fifth Avenue president Ron Frasch and Neiman Marcus fashion director Ken Downing. Both stores carry Siriano's collection. There's clearly something about the designer. "Women are very excited about him," Downing said after the show. "They definitely know who he is."

Siriano explained his Spring inspiration as a mélange of various cultures from places he hasn't been; "A bit of African, a bit of Asian, a bit of Mediterranean-Greek," he said backstage. The vague references had vague execution—an abstracted Indian temple print here, a croc-patterned brocade safari suit there. For the most part, the clothes were a catchall attempt at sophistication and glamour. But apart from the designer's personality, there isn't much of a sartorial story to tell. Siriano's clothes generally don't propose any fresh thinking about fashion or the way women should dress. And when they do, there's an air of the ridiculous.

You could allow the draped gown half-swallowed in a nimbus cloud of ruffles as a showpiece, but not the printed suit with an asymmetrical ruffle that juts straight out for half a foot. There is something about Christian, and that can't be discounted. But it would be nice to see him shore up the goodwill and fame with clothes that can stand on their own.

Monday, October 5, 2009

Jean Paul Gaultier Spring 2010 RTW.

Sessilee Lopez (NATHALIE)

Underwear has become a dominant theme this season, and you couldn't expect Jean Paul Gaultier to just ignore it. Not when he practically invented the concept with his partner in crime, Madonna.

Lakshmi Menon (NATHALIE)

Gaultier fully embraced this latest lingerie moment, naming his Spring collection "The G Spot." (Nothing like putting it all out there.)

R'el Dade (MARILYN)

Madge's notorious cone-bra corset appeared in many guises: as the bodice of satin engineer-striped overalls during the opening gang-girl sequence, later on in the military section underneath a green-drab skirtsuit, and again with a pair of shorts during the finale's panty parade.

Magdalena Frackowiak (ELITE)

One of the models, who wore padding at hip and derriere to make her appear more voluptuous, looked visibly embarrassed when she took her tour in her scanties.

Rianne Ten Haken (WOMEN)

Among the audience, the burlesque queen Dita Von Teese, Katy Perry, and Rihanna (who, as we all know by now, is in town shopping for clothes for her next tour) probably ate it up.

Iris Strubegger (WOMEN)

But to the initiated who've been following Gaultier since his Madonna days in the late eighties, it felt like territory he's explored many times before, and a heck of a lot more subtly.