MODELOS: Badgley Mischka

domingo, 20 de septiembre de 2009

Badgley Mischka Spring 2010 RTW.

Kendra Spears

Mark Badgley and James Mischka channeled the tropical glamour of mid-fifties Cuba for Spring. The pair sourced their visuals by digging through old photos of friends' parents snapped during Havana's heyday. (The friends, incidentally, were in Palm Beach—the perfect locale to wear these clothes today.)

Maria Kashleva

Badgley and Mischka mostly worked a formula of clean, breezy fabrics with a well-measured dose of embellishment. By day, that would mean a lovely bell-sleeve white jersey dress, totally plain but for the vibrant coral bib necklace; and for evening, a fluttery black silk halter gown, casually belted and worn with a chunky crystal cuff.

Ali Stephens

Jewelry was important here, seen in big, sparkly costume tangles of chains and found objects. It's far from a fresh idea, but it brought a welcome off-kilter twist to the designers' straightforward elegance.

Arlenis Sosa

As their notes explained, this old-school island set also wore Parisian couture, and there was certainly a touch of Rue Cambon in all the black and white, and evidence of atelier hours in beadwork and the hundreds of tiny white petals embroidered on a ball skirt.

Heloise Guerin

The first two terrific daywear looks in salt-and-pepper silk tweed were also a nod to the same. The graphic palette far outshone the shots of color in lipstick red and highlighter pink: The latter is a hue that's become a clichéd way to add runway excitement, but that's a minor quibble for a mostly solid collection.

Kori Richardson

Katie Fogarty

Karolin Wolter

Chanel Iman

Abbey Lee

Angelika Kocheva

Charlotte di Calypso

Alana Zimmer

Charlotte Hoyer

Alyona Osmanova

Daria Strokous

Kendra Spears

Maria Kashleva

Arlenis Sosa

Kori Richardson

Ali Stephens

Heloise Guerin

Karolin Wolter

Katie Fogarty

Chanel Iman

Abbey Lee

Angelika Kocheva

Charlotte di Calypso

Alana Zimmer

Alyona Osmanova

Charlotte Hoyer

Daria Strokous

Arlenis Sosa

Kori Richardson

Maria Kashleva

Heloise Guerin

Siri Tollerød

Kendra Spears

Abbey Lee

Mark Badgley and James Mischka

jueves, 6 de agosto de 2009

Badgley Mischka Fall 2009 Ready to Wear.

Giedre Dukavskaite

"The beat goes on," said Mark Badgley backstage after today's show.

Anne Vyalitsyna

"It never makes sense to do something that we're not about."

Milagros Schmoll

What Badgley and his design partner, James Mischka, are about, recession or no, is great-looking dresses with a healthy dose of straight-up glamour—speaking of which, they are currently hard at work on two Oscar gowns.

Alyona Osmanova

For all that, though, they kicked things off in a quietly minimal manner, sending out a group of smart all-black day looks.

Hyoni Kang

Some of these came from their lower-priced Platinum collection, which the duo went on to mix in throughout, because, noted Mischka, "that's how women shop."

Georgina Stojilkovic

Of course, the wattage was soon amped up. On the brighter end of the spectrum: a liquid-gold velvet that fell into a seductive low-necked cowl; eye-popping satins; and a slinky allover-sequin column, surely headed for a chanteuse near you.