Chaiken 2007 F/W NYC

[BaroqueRockstar]

Chaiken!!!
from yahoo news

 

[BaroqueRockstar]

yahoo news

 

[BaroqueRockstar]

personally, i think chaiken is one of the most underrated brands out there
i'm not liking this as much as some of its other collections (fall 05 was amazing) but this is still nice IMO
backstage with donald jr and wife

 

[Velouria]

amazing! i it.

 

[I_bend_for_denim]

 

[I_bend_for_denim]

It is times like this that I wish I wore womans clothing.

 

[LibertyRose]

Hmm, trying to be the new Roland Mouret?

 

[gia0202]

i think they are out here trying to take away customers from the kennethcoles, bcbg's--fighting fir the thirty-something professional dollar. mouret was waaaay pricier.

 

[kitty87kat]

nice stuff, but is anyone esle distracted by the bangs?

 

[peacelover142002]

I almost fell asleep while looking through this collection. Not one single piece stood out.

 

[liberty33r1b]

Hmm, trying to be the new Roland Mouret?

exactly. just that this here looks boring mostly and only has a few really good pieces in it....

 

[cosmicangel]

Style.com

NEW YORK, February 6, 2007 – The spirit of Millicent Rogers haunted this all-American show like a dirndl-skirt-wearing, Navaho-art-collecting, globe-trotting ghost. Jeff Mahshie, who co-designs the line with Julie Chaiken, explained that they chose Rogers as their starting point because of her "chic, nomadic lifestyle," as well as the vivid, ethnographic colors—pungent tomato-reds and yolk-yellows—she pioneered in the 1940s.

You could see that Millicent flare in the longer, slimmer cut of the skirts, the curvy glamour sheaths, and the fuller trousers. Front-row guests like Kelly Rowland and Juliana Margulies no doubt were most interested in the latter: Customers count on Chaiken for a well-cut pair of pants. This season, they can choose from a flannel sailor look, a full-cuffed option, or sporty cropped styles. Many of these were worn in a (typically Millicent) mannish manner, with cravats and hand-knit calvary jackets.

Less successful were the tuxedo looks and cummerbund-bound waists. There were also several anomalous sari pieces—apparently a reference to the cultural tourism undertaken by their style icon—and five "Taos" dresses in full-on sun-scorched primaries that were just a bit too much Millicent.

– Laird Borrelli

 

[cosmicangel]

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[Diamond Star]

Hmm, trying to be the new Roland Mouret?

One of the dresses does look like Mouret's 'Galaxy' dress....

 

[cosmicangel]

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[cosmicangel]

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[cosmicangel]

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[xmodel citizen]

The last dresses are yummy. And green is Boring, but nice.

 

[Whitelinen]

I kind of like this. The oriental scarves, the conservative and classic dresses. Still I think they could have improved in so many things, such as having a uniting theme for the collection, cutting the clothes better and avoiding some of the tricks which have been seen a thousand times. This will not be a favourite (so far I have only one: Bruce), but it comes close. It kind of hurts me that this is not good enough to be a favourite, but there are some things I like too much.

I hope designers would understand the importance of cut and quality.