Two Designers, Two Styles, One Outlook
Designer Antonio Ortega SS 2017 Collection was inspired by the notions of beauty and martyrdom. The visual esthetic was a paradoxical blend of crucified Christ and the elegance of the 1930's.
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The scene opens on a clerical circus where pain and suffering hide behind the luminosity of beauty and creation. The normality of revealing pain through a collection both created and distorted by the striking blows of a hand was quite tantalizing.
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Yet, through the morbidity and horror of a bloody, bruised body, the viewer glimpses a dynamic dance emerge from colorful and textured patterns. A dance where silk crepe, cotton, chiffon, silk and taffeta are highlighted by the embroidery defining Ortega's trademark.
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The collection exposes two worlds seemingly in contrast, through cuts, flowing lines, and stained glass beadwork. Lashes of a whip, either planned and carefully premeditated, or completely spontaneous and unexpected, exposing traces of the designer's creations, whims, and patterns.
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With his passion for couture, craftsmanship, and creation, Antonio Ortega's style embodies diversity and elegance, enabling a woman to look and feel her best.
The martyr of beauty - or beauty of the martyr?
Butterfly of Paradise
At the Westin Hotel in Paris France, designer Ziad Nakad presents his inventiveness of a universal paradise where butterflies and flowers are the pivotal emblems of inspiration.
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Each silhouette gives the appearance of a radiant bouquet of summer flowers. The poignancy and delicacy of butterfly structures are depicted in three dimensional shapes and sophisticated insertions of embroidery. With a predominant color range of salmon pink, soft blue, dazzling gray, and calm amber.
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Cuts wide and narrow, short and long, or even asymmetrical give a touch of audacity.
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The show culminates with an ethereal bride in the magnificent paradise appearing in an astonishing gown embroidered with butterflies.
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Ziad Nakad's creative mix of materials and colors reflect timeless femininity and the beauty of a woman's personality.
