USA: BRITISH DESIGNER LUELLA BARTLEY AND US DESIGNER NICOLE MILLER DISPLAY THEIR AUTUMN COLLECTIONS

Record ID: 376790

  • Title: USA: BRITISH DESIGNER LUELLA BARTLEY AND US DESIGNER NICOLE MILLER DISPLAY THEIR AUTUMN COLLECTIONS
  • Date: 9th February 2003
  • Summary: VARIOUS OF MODELS ON RUNWAY
  • Embargoed: 24th February 2003 12:00
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  • Location: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
  • Country: USA
  • Topics: Fashion,Quirky,Light / Amusing / Unusual / Quirky
  • Reuters ID: LVACZG8GLHGB9CWCY6Q48P0QH7P6
  • Story Text: Hip British designer Luella Bartley and American fashion icon Nicole Miller have displayed their Fall 2003 collections on the runways of New York Fashion Week to capacity crowds.
    Two icons of fashion with different approaches to style graced the runways of Seven on Sixth Fashion Week on Sunday (February 9, 2003).
    London based designer Luella Bartley's standing room only crowd was treated to her version of spontaneous fun. The clothes were very 80's inspired, slouchy, with a comfortable feel.
    Textures of cotton, wool, gabardine and distressed denim were prevalent. Unconstructed jackets layered on top of simple, white cotton button-down shirts were shown with baggy, distressed bottoms.
    Models wore straight, pulled-back pony-tails and heavy, dark eyebrows rounded out the looks.
    "It's all about being a staunch "Echo and the Bunnyman"
    fan. It's about borrowing your boyfriend's clothes but it's going out, it's quite like experimental and spontaneous with lot's of tailoring and it's quite comfort and slouchy, but there's also these quite mad dresses and you just kind of put it all together and everything's really layered and there's just kind of loads going on," Bartley said of the collection.
    Later in the day, American design maven Nicole Miller displayed her show to an enthusiastic crowd of Fashion Week-goers.
    The clothes were a beautiful mix of colours and textures with a decidedly
    "art deco" 20's theme.
    Fabrics were a blend of rayon jersey, wool gabardine, suede, lycra, silk, knit, crepe, fur trims and taffeta.
    Textures were patterned wools with sequins, glazed, crunched taffeta's, shirred chiffon and beaded silks.
    Silhouettes were slim with tailored jackets over trim, form fitting mini-skirts. A neutral palate of colour was used including black, brown, olive, fatigue, wine and loden. A flirty mix of hemlines cut on the bias and flat-front pants with high-legged boots completed the tailored ensembles.
    "It's a little bit of mod twenties. I started with a little bit of twenties, I added a little Deco and I tweaked it all Mod. So the skirts are shorter and I like that, because I don't like to do anything that's too literal of the period, so I feel that I've combined two different decades, and I think it had a really fun outcome. You might see a little "Carnaby Street", a little twenties and then all the motifs are "Deco"," Miller said.
    New York Fashion Week runs on the catwalks of New York City until Friday (February 14).
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