UK: BRITISH DESIGNER JASPER CONRAN UNVEILS HIS SPRING/SUMMER 2006 COLLECTION AT LONDON FASHION WEEK

Record ID: 231231

  • Title: UK: BRITISH DESIGNER JASPER CONRAN UNVEILS HIS SPRING/SUMMER 2006 COLLECTION AT LONDON FASHION WEEK
  • Date: 21st September 2005
  • Summary: (W3) LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM (SEPTEMBER 21, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. BLACK SILK SKIRT SUIT 2. BLACK FITTED TROUSERS AND SHORT-SLEEVED SHIRT 3. WHITE BRODERIE ANGLAISE SKIRT AND FITTED T-SHIRT 4. WHITE SHIRT AND LONG SKIRT 5. WHITE BRODERIE ANGLAISE DRESS 6. SILVER TAFFETA SKIRT AND SHIRT 7. CREAM TAFFETA DRESS 1.01 8. SOCIALITE ISABELLA BLOW WATCHING SHOW 1.05 9. PALE GREEN SHIRT AND GOLD TROUSERS 10. BLACK AND WHITE SPOTTED CHIFFON DRESS 11. PALE BLUE TAFFETA DRESS 12. SILVER BANDEAU 13. GREY MARL DRESS 14. GREY AND BLACK DRESS WITH FRILLED SKIRT 15. MODELS ON CATWALK AT END OF SHOW 16. DESIGNER JASPER CONRAN ON CATWALK TAKING BOW 2.33 17. (SOUNDBITE) (English) DESIGNER JASPER CONRAN SAYING: "Oh, it's a Neapolitan street scene. She's a nice girl going about her marketing. It's, you know, quite romantic and pretty and gentle and evocative, I suppose, of when women were women." 18. CONRAN BEING INTERVIEWED BY TELEVISION CREW 3.05 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 6th October 2005 13:00
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  • Location: LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM
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  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Reuters ID: LVACBXGUWZEZGW6GTV17Z34C7XT4
  • Story Text: Established British designer Jasper Conran shows a simple, classic summer collection
    inspired by Italian village life.


    Neapolitan village life came to London Fashion Week on Wednesday
    (September 21) with the spring/summer 2006 show of British designer Jasper Conran. Renowned for his classic monochrome tailoring, Conran was true to form with a largely black, white and grey collection. Models were sent down a catwalk decorated with laundry pegged on a line, wearing black headscarves like grieving Sicilian widows.

    Despite the lack of colour, the collection had the feel of a baking
    Mediterranean summer. Light summer dresses were fitted and cut to just below the knee, often with a flared hemline. Trousers were tight and cropped, worn with little tailored shirts open to the navel. For evening, dresses were long and lean in taffeta or silk.

    When Conran broke away from monochrome, it was to feature pieces in
    dusky pink, pale turquoise and lilac. The highlight of the show was a
    floor-skimming black and grey evening dress with a feathered train.

    Jasper Conran has established a reputation as Britain's foremost modern classicist. He is one of Britain's most commercially successful designers, known for his clean-lined, subtly tailored shapes and high-quality fabrics.


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