Designer Inspirations F/W 07.07 - article

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Photo: Jeremy Laing and Jeremy Stewart, using microscopic images of minerals under polarized light, taken by John Rakovan.
"I was inspired by the color, texture and physical structure of the minerals on display at the Natural History Museum." - Jeremy Laing

 

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"The work of the jewelers Castellani and Giuliano, especially a Byzantine cross with extraordinary detailing and colors." - Joanna Mastroianni

 

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"Imperfect perfection: the natural shape of the body." - Kai Milla

 

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"Fall 2007 exudes the romantic elegance of old-world Hollywood glamour...Glamour rules!" - Kati Stern, Venexiana

 

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"The Eleanor Coerr's children book 'Sadako and the Thousand Cranes.'" - Mal Sirrah

 

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Photo: Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly backstage at the 28th Annual Academy Awards, 1956, courtesy of Allan Grant/Timepix/Snapper Media, published by Rizzoli
"The feminine ideal of the late Fifties paired with vibrant colors that evoke late 18th-century French courts." - Jada Marie Simons, Marie Marie

 

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Photo: "Salome Triumphant," 1886 by Edouard Toudouze
"This season's inspiration is the Biblical character Salome. She is both a carnal temptress and a virgin." - Nicole Romano

 

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"Fall 2007 is experimenting: drape, asymmetry and symmetry, vivid hologram-spectrum colors bounced off black." - Palmer Jones

 

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"I rethought the image of the modern femme fatale, exploring and juxtaposing both her lighter and darker sides." - Pegah Anvarian

 

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"Playfully powerful" - Alessandro DeVito and Lika Volkova, Sans

 

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"This collection was inspired by the iconic intermix of the Sixties era: the new mixed with the archetypal; classic silhouettes mixed with an intense color palette, classic fabrics cut in a modern style." - Alexander Terekhov, Terexov

 

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"Fall is French-inspired with heavy references to Twenties Paris - a modern take on slim skirts, drop waist dresses, and boxy jackets...The look is elegant and flirty juxtaposed with a relaxed and tomboy attitude...think Amelia Earhart playing dress up." - Amy Smilovic, Tibi

 

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"One of the main design ideas for the women's collection was to start with a foundation of rectangular elements made through folding, ultimately creating a piece composed of a pattern of repeating rectangles acting as the structure of the piece and also the decorative element - calling to mind the architectural structures of Herzog and de Meuron." - Miho Aoki and Thuy Pham, United Bamboo

 

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"I blend the influences of my two homelands, Vienna and Istanbul. The Austrian art of the ýWiener Werkstatte' period and the mystery of Istanbul." - Atil Kutoglu

 

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Photo: courtesy of Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. / Art Resource
"We looked to the moody, sober, almost melancholy portraits by Romaine Brooks. The strength and conviction of the sitter that exudes, and her mastery over grays, and colors that held a certain mystery and romance." - Jeffrey Costello and Robert Tagliapietra, Costello Tagliapietra

 

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Photo: courtesy of Columbia / Lester Glassner Collection / Neal Peters
"Fall 2007 is like a day of shopping at Lord & Taylor in 1981. I don't always see the future as being plastic and monochromatic, but more colorful and organic. I'd like to think I'm paying respect to designers of the past by bringing what they envisioned for the future to life now." - Grant Krajecki, Grey Ant

 

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"'Is it getting better? / Or do you feel the same? / Will it make it easier on you now? / You got someone to blame / You say / One love / One life / When it's one need / In the night / One love / We get to share it / Leaves you, baby, if you / Don't care for it' - 'One' by U2." - Kai Kuhne

 

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"Eastern European collectives of art, dress, music and philosophy." - Erik Hart, Morphine Generation

 

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"I was inspired by the fragmented geometry and fluid mobility in Zaha Hadid's work." - Shelly Steffee

 

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"The elegance of the Fifties redefined for modern day. Think 'Magnificent Obsession.' Things are not always as they appear." - Cynthia Vincent, Twelfth Street by Cynthia Vincent