Fri. 09/11/2015.
Cushnie Et Ochs Spring/Summer 2016.
Carly Cushnie and Michelle Ochs' Spring 2016 offering was replete with the things that they are most well known for... Body clinging dresses and tops, innovative and unique draping and cutout/openings, etc... This collection however fell somewhere well short of the high watermark usual of their work. With 90's era Hip-Hop viewed through the Rococo splendoured prism of Artist Kehinde Wiley, known for his ostentatiously fabulous overwrought portraits of African-American men in modern garb painted in wildly Baroque fashion, one would have had high hopes for this collection. Unfulfillingly so, the collection faltered and a lot of the clothes didn't limn the body in the right kind of ways and unfortunately, made the models look wide and misproportioned. It didn't help in the least that some of the models were already more... "Volumetric" at the start.
Not to say there wasn't much to love and admire, in typical Cushnie/Ochs style, some pieces were delivering Fierce with a capital "RAWR" and deliciously sexy, check out the palest Periwinkle dress on African Beauty Leila Nda, cut perfectly to accentuate the body's lines and curves without adding unneeded heft to the figure it was encasing and slimming it! The LBD number at Exit No.28 was also a masterpiece of sleek construction. My biggest complaint though, is that with all this body hugging, the majority of the already slim models looked bigger than usual, maybe it's just my eye, but curvaceous is one thing, doughy is altogether another entirely!
That's All.
Bye4Now!
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