Christian Siriano

The cavernous, multidimensional glass sculptures of Australian artist Sergio Redegalli received Christian Siriano serious about the “results of transparency” for Spring 2015. The designer experimented fairly a bit with layers, constructing clothes from sheets of striped organza, or including spiky crystals as an underskirt peeking out from the underside of a brocade cocktail costume. A laser-minimize, leaf-like embroidery overlaid on sheer organza cloth added texture to a cap-sleeve shirt worn with a protracted pleated skirt. The shade palette was icy, transferring from white to glass-inexperienced to navy, with graduated colours in between. Many of the textiles have been impressed by Brooklyn artist Tara Donovan, whose installations are made out of atypical issues like Styrofoam cups, fishing line, and plastic ingesting straws. In some instances, Donovan’s affect labored fairly properly. For occasion, a inexperienced bubble lamé regarded fetchingly retro on a excessive-low robe and a full skirt that was paired with a navy crewneck. However, a raffia ball skirt—impressed by the fishing line—had a heftiness to it that felt off when worn with a cropped, skinny-strapped tank.

Dramatic eveningwear is Siriano’s bread and butter, and he dutifully provided his consumer loads of choices, together with a jacquard-dot robe with a supersize flounce framing its skirt and a graduated sea-foam gown fabricated from diaphanous diagonal ruffles. But Siriano says that his buyer is extra than ever in items for day, so he’s working laborious to get his sportswear proper. A white off-the-shoulder quantity in a stretch knit labored effectively, because of a slight curve on the collarbone. It was a tiny element that made it look a bit of extra “dressed,” as Siriano would say, and fewer off-the-rack. The designer does greatest when he hits that candy spot between theatrical and conventional.

Christian Siriano Spring Summer 2015

Christian Siriano