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The shiny fabrics are just GREAT!
but i think thats just a great collection at the perfect time.
but i'm confused- everybody keeps saying how NEW this looks....
NEW YORK TIMES 19th by Cathy Horyn
Mr. Schwab’s talent has not been apparent in his last two collections. They were respectable but derivative — the inarticulate expressions of a probably gifted young man. How many of those types have we known in fashion? So it was a pleasure to see Mr. Schwab unknot himself, to match his contemporary shapes and cutting with his intellectual ideas.
He gave himself the awesome challenge of using fabric to replicate the topography of the body. Sometimes the translation was nearly literal, as with blurry prints (for short, clingy dresses) that seemed to be a digitalized image of tissue and veins. Where he excelled was with dresses and jackets made of sections of fabric that appeared to be suspended on an interior harness. Other garments revealed the body through an opening achieved by folding back the fabric and curling its edges with hidden wire, so that texture looked organic.
Some of these pleating effects were very simple, producing a sleeveless black dress with a surface of scattered, pressed folds. But even when Mr. Schwab’s designs appeared to be complex, his methods were coherent. A number of designers have attempted similar cutting — Hussein Chalayan, for one — but Mr. Schwab did something crucial. He made you see that there was a contemporary feeling in the shapes, a usefulness, and not predominately a clever concept.
Does anyone know if Marios does the shoes or does someone else do them for him?
I could definitely rock those shoes! And the details are making me speechless. Thanks so much for those, Alejandro.
I'm very very disappointed with the runway layout.
The dresses may look plain from the front but actually they have very detailed backs...however the runway is split into two parts so you can't see the models walking back.
That's very stupid in my opinion. To evaluate the garment the runway should let all parties present see the front and the back.
You can also tell from the photographs that many of the details weren't captured.
Edit: by all parties I mean, not just the people who were able to swivel their heads to see the back of the garment. People who don't have the chance to see the collection in person....or people at the end of the runway or very start. I can see why they do it, it's to stop clutter of models walking at the same time but I don't really like it.