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Events Air New Zealand Fashion Week 2009 Alexandra Owen FW '09 - review
Events Air New Zealand Fashion Week 2009 Alexandra Owen FW '09 - review
Alexandra Owen FW '09 - review
Alexandra Owen FW '09
From the first slouchy trench to hit the runway complete with bondage-y bandage-y legs and shoes, you knew that Alexandra Owen’s A/W ’10 at Air NZ Fashion Week’s Tuesday was going to meet expectations.
If you hadn’t twigged to an equestrian theme the emergence of a model wearing a bridle made it clear with delicious humour – not a touch of the Fashion Week stunt here, just seriously stylish playfulness and wit.
Owen’s palette was restricted to white, black, brown and tobacco (“oh, she splashed out and did some tobacco!” smiled fashionisto Robert Niwa when we told him) which enabled you to focus on the texture, detailing and particularly the beautiful proportion, for which this designer has an amazing eye. For example, a skinny pant, slouched just so at the ankle, was coupled with a thigh length jacket whose horizontal tucking on the upper body perfectly offset the pants’ vertical line.
A very clever dress in what looked like fine wool was directional with asymmetrical curved hem and a single elbow patch, but you could see that it was also beautifully constructed and would be very flattering – that winter dress you trot out every week (couldn’t resist the pun).
White was used to offset darker colours in long cuffs, contrast collars, sleeve placket trim and with white gloves as accessories. Skinny pants alternated with straighter-legged knee length styles – far too stylish to call ‘shorts’.
Other standouts – a leather jacket with voluptuous sculpted neck, horizontal paneling on a satin-y black jacket cinched just so with belt at the waist; gauzy, fitted shirts tucked pronouncedly in at the waist, and the coolest sheer black overskirt.
Brows were almost black and quite thick, lips nude.
Owen shows exactly why she has been invited to show at next year’s New York Fashion Week – highly esteemed ‘Frockwriter’ Patty Huntington calls her “New Zealand’s hottest new designer. We say, any style maven who has to buy ‘tailored’ next winter could do no better than this collection.
From the first slouchy trench to hit the runway complete with bondage-y bandage-y legs and shoes, you knew that Alexandra Owen’s A/W ’10 at Air NZ Fashion Week’s Tuesday was going to meet expectations.
If you hadn’t twigged to an equestrian theme the emergence of a model wearing a bridle made it clear with delicious humour – not a touch of the Fashion Week stunt here, just seriously stylish playfulness and wit.
Owen’s palette was restricted to white, black, brown and tobacco (“oh, she splashed out and did some tobacco!” smiled fashionisto Robert Niwa when we told him) which enabled you to focus on the texture, detailing and particularly the beautiful proportion, for which this designer has an amazing eye. For example, a skinny pant, slouched just so at the ankle, was coupled with a thigh length jacket whose horizontal tucking on the upper body perfectly offset the pants’ vertical line.
A very clever dress in what looked like fine wool was directional with asymmetrical curved hem and a single elbow patch, but you could see that it was also beautifully constructed and would be very flattering – that winter dress you trot out every week (couldn’t resist the pun).
White was used to offset darker colours in long cuffs, contrast collars, sleeve placket trim and with white gloves as accessories. Skinny pants alternated with straighter-legged knee length styles – far too stylish to call ‘shorts’.
Other standouts – a leather jacket with voluptuous sculpted neck, horizontal paneling on a satin-y black jacket cinched just so with belt at the waist; gauzy, fitted shirts tucked pronouncedly in at the waist, and the coolest sheer black overskirt.
Brows were almost black and quite thick, lips nude.
Owen shows exactly why she has been invited to show at next year’s New York Fashion Week – highly esteemed ‘Frockwriter’ Patty Huntington calls her “New Zealand’s hottest new designer. We say, any style maven who has to buy ‘tailored’ next winter could do no better than this collection.
View all the runway pics here.
Reviewed By Julie Roulston
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