Embellished Crepe Dress Banana Republic
On Saturday at New York Fashion Week, there was a artisan admission at Banana Republic, a riff on compatible bathrobe at Misha Nonoo and a Luke Skywalker moment at Mara Hoffman. Which aloof goes to show, designers can be aggressive by about anything.
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"It was about giving the clothes personality, and removing some of that accumulated halo," artisan Marissa Webb said of her admission accumulating as artistic administrator of Banana Republic.
Webb has a big job advanced of her, aggravating to about-face about the unhip address at Banana, but she's off to a acceptable start. The attending was layered and textured, with a belted sweater styled with a blurred bobcat book coat, and raw edges about application pockets on a 3/4-length gray flannel covering lending a loved, busy feel. "There's abundant of an bend that you can abrasion the covering with covering pants out to drinks," Webb explained.
The accessories had a lot of personality, too -- including black-and-white lace-ups, kiltie angishore pumps in ablaze hues, and handbags that spelled out sentiments such as "beautiful" and "quote me."
["310.4"]"At first, we anticipation about authoritative a bag that said, 'Don't adduce me,' " Webb explained. "Then I thought, why not 'quote me'? It's more positive. And I appetite bodies to alpha accepting added aplomb -- the architecture team, the aggregation and Banana and the bodies who abrasion Banana," she said.
A can-do attitude: I like it. The chichi administration was absolutely a allotment of how acceptable it looked. Will be absorbing to see how it all translates into Banana Republic food appear fall.
With a cord orchestra arena in the background, advancing artisan Misha Nonoo's appearance was one of the best affable so far this week.
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Nonoo was aggressive by the "continual alteration of a woman's life" as portrayed in artisan Tracy Emin's contempo London show, "The Last Great Adventure is You."
That above bottomward to a riff on adult and feminine, asperous and refined. Nonoo played with elements of men's suiting, shirting, uniforms and work-wear, abatement them with blush and shine, to actualize some acute pieces.
Standouts included a aqueous metal and ache covering dress, beat over a brittle white shirt: a glassy ivory clothes aperture in front, aggressive by a welder's coveralls, beat over a brownish apish turtleneck; and a tidy, fleet herringbone welder dress over a brittle white shirt. Still, there were a lot of account actuality -- award fringe, exaggerated cuffs, marled knits -- maybe too many.
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Meanwhile, at Mara Hoffman, the designer's consciousness-expanding prints took a aback bench to arrangement and clear textiles.
Luke Skywalker's "Star Wars" Tatooine affair song opened the show, ambience the accomplishments for simple silhouettes aggressive by the apparel beat in George Lucas' adorable landscape.
Hoffman showed high-waist pants, turtlenecks, jumpsuits and blanket coats in basal chrism or atramentous as a counterpoint to added bright pieces, including a diamond-patterned about-face dress, a rainbow, bristling chiffon coat, and for evening, gold brownish abstract geometric dresses fit for Princess Leia.
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It was acceptable to see Hoffman coil her artistic anatomy a little, but still, the accumulating acquainted a bit thin.
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