An Latex Catsuits Adventure in Detail and Perspective

Next year the Calvin Klein company expects to generate $6 billion in retail sales, a small fraction of which -- about $40 million -- will come from sales of the runway collections designed by its star Francisco Costa. A money-loser, the collections' real value lie in marketing and the skillful use of advertising and celebrities like the hot-bodied Eva Mendes, who was at Mr. Costa's show on Thursday, and thus its prestige is wildly inflated.
More and more, expensive ready-to-wear functions like haute couture, as the bait that hooks consumers. Fashion houses get news media exposure for their shows -- that's one purpose of Fashion Week -- while the bulk of their Latex Clothing sales comes from preseason collections, which reflect the designer's aesthetic as well as enjoy a longer selling time in stores because they are delivered before runway pieces. Besides, runway looks are typically ordered in such small qualities that relatively few people will ever see or touch the actual garments, much less own them.The gap, then, is widening between what you see on the runway Zentai Suits and what, in effect, you get, although how much this bothers editors is hard to say. They have their own reasons for attending shows.But one dress from the fall 2008 collections -- Balenciaga's look No. 2, a sculptural black sheath -- illustrates the point. Editors raved about the dress's modern cut. It appeared in major fashion magazines, and stores like Barneys featured it in their ads.
Yet, according to Balenciaga's chief executive, Isabelle Guichot, just over 100 dresses were sold worldwide. The dress was pricey , and Balenciaga has an interest in limiting distribution, but the small number puts into perspective the reach of influential labels. High quality and favorable price pumps,  boots  and many different kind of high heel shoes, we specially set up retail Latex Catsuits store website That perspective helps to explain Mr. Costa's strange and exuberant collection. Many designers have attempted to imagine fashion as geometry or modernist architecture -- Issey Miyake and Yohji Yamamoto are just two who come to mind. In his most recent couture collection for Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld created gowns with shoulders that looked as if they had been clapped  with seat cushions.
But the admirable thing about the collection was the level of research into the materials -- including Latex Catsuits, wire mesh and new technical silks -- and the quality of Mr. Costa's presentation. Some of the silvery white shifts and sleek pants outfits are stunning. Zentai Suits But for the work to have real meaning beyond a runway experience, Mr. Costa has to develop some of these shapes and fabrics further and return to them. It's worth noting that some of the jersey dresses in the collection, also with cube effects, recalled designs he did two or three years ago. So perhaps this show was really part of a longer process.
By Thursday evening, Zac Posen had turned everything on its teased head. The show was trashy and fun, the models made up into unrecognizable imitations of Britney. Or something along those trashy violet-lip lines. Many of the itty-bitty silk dresses were adorable, as were filmy leopard-print chiffon dresses and cheeky hot pants worn with a matching soda-pink jacket. for people all Zentai Suits over the world seeking But it was it mainly light entertainment.Ralph Lauren's show on Friday was terrifically adventurous -- Indiana Jones in gold sequins. If Mr. Lauren didn't send out the best harem pants of Fashion Week, it's hard to think who did. His were done in burnished gold beads. More practical versions came in khaki linen.
There were some great safari pants and shirts, as well as a trim pantsuit in gold-glazed linen. Dresses were skimmy and sexy, most notably a halter style in bronze-beaded tulle. The model wore a turban and crystal teardrop earrings.After L'Wren Scott's show on Friday at the Gagosian Gallery, her friends Sarah Jessica Parker and Ellen Barkin compared notes on favorite looks. Both women agreed that a slithery black wool dress, its scoop neckline outlined in ivory silk and its wand sleeves cuffed in ivory, Zentai Suits was tops.''And then ...'' Ms. Parker ticked off another dress.''And then ...'' Ms. Barkin said, mentioning a frilly striped sleeveless blouse. This was Ms. Scott's strongest collection since she began her label. She offered a great sense of her familiar drama, with an all-over white feather cape lined in lace, but the striking thing about her dresses was the intimacy and the refinement of the details.
Every detail, from the quality of the ivory French linen for a sheath dress to the lingerie bodice of a white slip dress, seemed considered. If there was one misstep, it was a figure-hugging black dress with a hem of flapping streamers. Ms. Scott said the collection was inspired by wind. It seemed light in spirit as well as in the hand. That's a measure of her progress.