Sinha-Stanic F/W 09.10 London

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LONDON, February 21, 2009

By Sarah Mower

Perhaps the economic maelstrom is producing at least one helpful side effect for designers. After years when many have found themselves making runway statements for the sake of it, or driven to keep up with what other people do for no good reason, they're now being forced to make a hard assessment of who they are and what they do best.

That's the case with Sinha-Stanic's Alexsandar Stanic and Fiona Sinha, who decided to concentrate on 19 draped dresses and one pantsuit for Fall, end of story. "Actually, it's been enjoyable. Now that we've stopped dealing with the big-show scenario, we've gone back to what people liked about our clothes in the first place," said Stanic. "Downsizing means I'm draping dresses on Fiona's body again, like we used to."

It's those expertly placed tucks and folds, strategically positioned to "minimize the hip and flatter where it matters—and make it modern," said Sinha, that women always respond to. So this season they've utilized a screen-grab print from the backdrop of their last show, colored it in tints of violet and purple, added marabou feather edgings, and worked on Pearly King and Queen button patterns and photo prints. The result: a compact little collection that distills the best of their talent, and which Stanic insists might just as well be worn by day as evening. "All you need is to throw on a biker jacket," he claims, pointing to the cropped shearling cycle jackets that are their one concession to outerwear.

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[JordanB]

The colors in the first 5 looks remind me of Rodarte s/s 09.

 

[giorrie]

The colors in the first 5 looks remind me of Rodarte s/s 09.

I was wondering why it looked so familiar yeah

 

[dumbfairy]

Little bit of a pearly queen look going on in the last few pieces

 

[gossiping]

what is with the shoes? they're horrible. i love the first two dresses but that's it

 

[Romantic Rebel]

Yeah the shoes don't look right at all.
But I guess they are just not my style

 

[masquerade]

ooooh, I love this. The prints are cool and i like the feathers

 

[Crying Diamonds]

The first looks remind me of this look from Lacroix couture S/S 08:

The Pearly Queen pieces are nice.


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[Kimkhuu]

The sheer black dresses with the white
"frou-frou" are LOVELY.

Love the color palette of the first
dresses posted.

 

[Yiji]

This is really lovely. I always like what they do, but this is really nice.

 

[jhaime]

pure nasty... they're murdering prints for next Fall i take it?

 

[i_like_tuesdays]

I actually love the last few dresses.

Hate the shoes though.