Giao continued the James Bond theme for
her springsummer 20023 collection. Camel plays a big
part in the range for this season. Inspiration from James Bond lends
itself to camel ad safari days, with nights definitely lending themselves
to daring, shock colour. Silhouettes for hommes are slim, with main
colours being red and black. The critics choice, undeniablya
sentiment that was shared by The Dominion Post's Carolyn
Enting.
When we spoke with the designer earlier in the
month, she said how she had watched every James Bond film to get
the inspiration. This is the cinematic, not literary, Bond; walking
to the notes of Tina Turner belting out Goldeneye as
composed by Bono were Giao's first womenswear models, dinner suited
guys and, as is traditional, blokes in swimming trunks, who desperately
did push-ups backstage to get themselves looking sizeably right
as they went on the catwalk.
At Plush, skirts are past knee length for
this coming season. As with Giao the colour du jour is camel
with accents and shirts in white, sand and subtle splashes of black.
Plush had a bohemian feel to this seasons clothes. Think vinyl
and frills and you have one long hot summer. The value for money
will be another talking point with Carolyn Barker's label.
Ricochet's Tatjana Windhager masked her
models and opinion was divided on this technique: it might have
made you look at the clothes but did it help the usual eye-flow
of going to the face and then downward? Nevertheless, we saw a tighter
silhouette than last season, and another hark back to the 1970s.
This collection is fresh and clean; the colour palette consists
of baby blues and black, creams, sand with accents of whitea
stunning eclectic mix.
At Madcat, showing at WFF for the first
time, think corsetry and graciousnesswith a thoroughly modern
twist! This collection had stunning standalone peices, some of the
tops had the best detailing and look that is this
season. The accent is on subtlety and the impact is timeless.
Colour plays included whites, reds, sands and blue.
Founded by husband-and-wife team John Hodge and
Jill Alexander, the label came into being in February 2001 and is
sold through Andrea Moore.
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