Shin Choi stayed with blue tartan patterning
and black for many of her outfits. Again, elegance was the key word
here, with a collection rooted in the past (Virginia Woolf's Clarissa
Dalloway) but with an urban touch. Cashmere and woollens were offset
with leather and suedes. Lucire noted her grey cocktail dress
which looked ready to take on New York (far more than Seoul) while
the Choi beret could be imagined back east (we mean east Asia) in
giving the designer's native Korean wearers a dash of the other
end of the Eurasian lands.
To prove that you can always get away by breaking
all the rules, there was Cynthia Steffe.
She might not have gone for the traditional elegance
of Kors, but Lucire welcomed the variety that she injected
to the otherwise all-black proceedings (and the Americans aren't
even in to rugby). Saucy senoritas came out with chokers and ruffles
made a comeback in this fallwinter 20023 collection
from the designer who herself once made People's top 50 most
attractive people.
Going way out, Jeremy Scott astounded audiences
with one of the most creative and highly charged collections during
the week. Mini-dresses and way-out collars appeared in wool and
leather. The Missouri-born designer, who had made his name in Paris,
had the most colourful collection all week and never mind impracticality.
Every fashion week needs a Jeremy Scott, débuting and daring.