Fashion Week: BCBG Max Azria — all dressed up for fall
BCBG Max Azria for fall 2009
Here’s a story from Fashion Wire Daily on BCBG Max Azria’s fall 2009 runway show.
By Godfrey Deeny
If the BCBG MaxAzria collection presented Friday, Feb.13 in Manhattan told us anything about how women will look this fall it is that they will be dressing in dresses, dresses and more dresses.
We could have counted on one hand the number of looks featuring jackets, or pants, in this latest display by the Los Angeles based but French founded label, which staged its fall 2009 collection before a packed house in The Tent, the largest of three spaces in Bryant Park, the nerve center of New York Fashion Week.
Ever since volume made a triumphant return to the world of women’s clothing three years ago in Europe, we have seen an awful lot of dresses in the past few seasons in a myriad of forms – Grecian goddess designs, rouched at the shoulders and rippling down the torso, or as plunging paneled looks in raw pale silks that had some élan but ultimately lacked poise, or in various grand dames ideas in moiré velvet that were, well, a tad too much.
Frocks frolicked out in dusty rose satins, sepia wrap takes and hammered lavender silks, all paired with racy golden tights, a crafty piece of styling by Camilla Nickerson.
BCBG Max Azria fall ’09
The overriding message here was to dress in dresses for success and fun, and the Achilles ’ heel of the show was that these were just not well enough cut. If one is going to play with volume, then the cut and draping must be impeccable so that while the dress is larger, it suggests the wearer is actually thinner. These clothes suggested the opposite, adding pounds to skinny beauties.
Ironically, when designer Max Azria did actually try a jacket, these looked rather swell, like a black lacquered and snug wee jacket that was agreeably Portrait of a Lady.
If you enjoyed this post, please consider to leave a comment or subscribe to the feed and get future articles delivered to your feed reader.
Comments
No comments yet.
Leave a comment