Fall 2015 Ready-to-WearCreatures of the Wind
NEW YORK,February 12, 2015
Shane Gabier and Christopher Peters' first New York fashion show was four years ago this week. They arrived as Chicago art school grads and disciples of Comme des Garçons and have tried on various hats in the interim. One thing we've never gotten from Creatures of the Wind, though, is sexy. That's the direction they headed in for Fall. It was definitely a surprise, but, you know what? It worked.
Backstage, the designers were talking about the '20s, '60s, and '70s, the peak moments, they said, of psychedelic culture in America. They played fast and loose with the idea. The '20s came across most clearly in a strappy sack dress in burnished gold. It was a one-off. More often the silhouette was '60s short, as in a black minidress with flowing white silk sleeves knotted at the elbow for volume and other sleeveless shifts with buttons hugging one shoulder from the high neckline to the rib cage. Either that or it was '70s glam, as was the case with a white pantsuit worn with a blush pink and silver lamé blouse that could've come straight from Bianca Jagger's closet.
The only thing there was more of than that silvery lamé—which also appeared on a shirtdress loosely belted over a silk slip and on a long, flowy gown—was fur. A sheared mink with a generous fox collar came across as fusty. But a couple of fox chubbies spliced onto fitted blazers were a different story. They were offbeat, the kind of thing that could make an outfit. The same goes for the mink sashes with intarsias of stars that made glancing reference to that other all-American preoccupation, the beauty pageant.
Read Chioma Nnadi's review of Creatures of the Wind's Fall 2015 ready-to-wear fashion show.
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