3.1 Phillip Lim Spring/Summer 2016.

Mon. 09/14/2015. 

3.1 Phillip Lim Spring/Summer 2016.

A Mixed Bag. Phillip Lim's Spring 2016 collection on the whole was a worthwhile excursion into some pretty fashion territory, but was a bit scattered and all over the place and definitely had some unfortunate sartorial moments that came off as clumsy and maladroit amongst the primarily fine collection. Skipping past the better left undiscussed source material for the collection that involved dirt and compost (so much so that Lim had mounds of it on the runway... Pardon?) Lim presented a collection that was in places incredibly delightful and presented a unique and artsy vision of romantic/sportif dressing that had some interesting and memorable high moments juxtaposed against some seriously head scratching design choices in some exits. 

On the whole, this was a modernistic yet poetically lyrical treatise by Lim, one that mined gold in the less fussy and overworked nooks and crannies, because it was quite over designed in many ways. In fact the most successfully wrought outfit was a diaphanous yet substantial White Pinstripe storm coat paired with Black leggings and a sportif White Organza top. Flirting the line between athletic and poetic, the outfit was the apotheosis of Lim's aesthetic and extolled the best virtues of the showing. 

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Yeohlee Spring/Summer 2016.

 Tues. 09/15/2015.

Yeohlee Spring/Summer 2016.

Simple. Such a innocent word. Simple, however, can be an exceptionally powerful word in the hands of someone who respects the word and can wrought forth such majestic ideas from such a little word. Yeohlee Tang is such a magician. Her collection for Spring 2016 was nothing more so than a continuation of her aesthetic of artistic simplicity and of elaborate ideas rendered with absolute ease. The short and impactive collection really had no theme deeper than geometry and math, un-simple things, true, but in the right hands can illicit exemplary results. 

As this collection was brief, this review shall be as such, not every woman radiates to the kind of fashion that Tang produces, there's an intellectual and esoteric bent to her clothes that is as much about mental gymnastics if not quite sartorial ones. In simplicity lies an incredible amount of artistry, a Black Faille shift, a rounded Camel coat, a Navy cap sleeve chemise, all, more eloquent and intricate than their apparent austere naturalness belies. Yeohlee is a modernist in every sense of the word, but her modern aesthetic does nothing to deny the inherent appeal of her minimalist nature. 

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Rosetta Getty Spring/Summer 2016.

09/14/2015.

Rosetta Getty Spring/Summer 2016.

Rosetta Getty had the good fortune of being at the museum that bears her familial name as it was prepping an installation of Yvonne Rainer's "Dances and Films" as she was in the midst of finding her direction for her Spring/Summer 2016 collection, and Rainer's exploration of Modern Dance informed Getty's superbly fluid and sensual, sublime collection. Getty presented a collection full of limpid, liquid pieces that accentuated the dance motif she was aping, in literal and more figurative fashion. Getty's ethereal touch was highlighted by her usage of the highest caliber of fabrications, from a cape sleeved Black Georgette gown that was uncommonly diaphanous to a densely textured yet gauzy White Viscose. 

Getty's subdued colour palette served to exemplify just how artistic and subtlely bold her collection was by not fussing it up with an abundance of flashy hues, Cream, White, Navy, Spice, Spruce, even the floral-y print she used was not ostentatious in it's execution. Getty's sublime collection struck a superb balance between the functional and the artistic that was never heavy handed or overtly intricate. Yes, it was abundantly unique and interesting. Getty showed how assured her hand was in a collection that could have easily and quickly gone off the rails into a costume drama and instead played out as a as a modern and esoteric dialogue on eccentricity.

That's All.

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