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Anna Sui spring–summer 2003. TOP LEFT: Black sequin athletic mesh football jersey, black-and-white window-pane skirt. TOP RIGHT: Red and yellow calico laminated jacket over poppy appliqué bikini. ABOVE: White top with multi-colour velvet ribbon appliqué, pink gingham embroidered skirt. ABOVE RIGHT: Green striped ruffle dress. RIGHT: Jockey intarsia vest, white voile blouse, black and white plaid knickers. Nautica by David Chu spring–summer 2003. CENTRE COLUMN, LEFT: Sportswear: lightweight cotton parka with 100 per cent wool surface with unique membrane, sealed seams, and waterproof zipper, blended woven fabric pant. CENTRE COLUMN, RIGHT: Surfing or racing board shorts in cotton poplin, spandex knit shirt.

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   Custo and David Dalmau are brothers and collaborators for Custo Barcelona. Switching from architecture and academia, the new design team began studying the art of screen-printing and textile-finishing processes during their early years in Spain. Screen-printed T-shirts soon became available, appealing to the surf and hippie cultures that influenced the brothers.
   Focusing on colourful graphic designs with unique imagery, their success has expanded into a full sportswear collection, and they opened their first stores in Barcelona and Ibiza, then Chicago, and in early 2003, New York City. As soon as the screen-printed tops, trousers, minis, kimonos, bathing suits, boots and bags hit the runway in New York recently, colour exploded in all directions. The collection is a true homage to the colours of sunny Spain.
   Anna Sui calls her collection ‘country club clothes’. Using that description loosely and even jokingly, it serves as a take-off point for clubby looks. Sui herself acknowledges that most country-club types would never belong to the club she had in mind. The collection has also been referred to as ‘Sporty Spice’. There are tennis dresses with mesh tops, wrap golf skirts too short for any golf course, silks emblazoned with an appliqué of a putting green or an equestrian image. There are motorcycle boots, Frye boots, tube socks and turbans made from T-shirts, insuring that most of the country club set would probably lock their gates.

Sui herself acknowledges that most country-club types would never belong to the club she had in mind.

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