2011 Fall/Winter
Marchesa
Considering they're English girls with highly romantic sensibilities, it's surprising that Marchesa's Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig have never considered a real moment of Victoriana until today. But Chapman, during a bout of insomnia, caught David Lean's Great Expectations on TV one night, and Miss Havisham it was for Fall. "I love the decaying opulence," Chapman said.
"We just thought, It's so Marchesa."
Opulence, yes, but decay not as much. For that reason, the first thing you noticed was a touch of deconstruction in draped duchesse dresses with pinked edges that dripped pieces of slightly destroyed silk tulle. But a lace motif was really the most overarching statement here, down to the socks worn with needle-heeled Louboutin Mary Janes. And it's where Chapman and Craig flexed their couturier muscles. For the most part, they didn't use actual lace, instead opting to exquisitely (and expensively) embroider the floral pattern in twinkling crystal, jet, and seed pearls onto tulle. One dress had leather cut into lace, and on another the lace beading was inserted with wire and sat like fantastical metallic flowers on a bodice. Chapman and Craig love the drama of volume, but thankfully they jettisoned their sculptural origami experiments with horsehair. Instead, it was channeled into the goth-y mutton-chop sleeves of a lipstick red trench and black Victorian riding jacket.
by.Meenal Mistry
style.com
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