Comments on: Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Spring 2009: Designer Review http://www.wardrobe911.com/mercedes-benz-fashion-week-spring-2009-designer-review/ your smart style resource Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:04:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: teresa http://www.wardrobe911.com/mercedes-benz-fashion-week-spring-2009-designer-review/comment-page-1/#comment-330 teresa Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:38:11 +0000 http://www.style.wardrobe911.com/?p=456#comment-330 You hit one of my pet peeves Karen! What I've noticed (especially when I was a buyer) was that the new designers (such as the ones featured here) don't know how to design for a REAL woman's body and are just used to draping on body forms. That's why they need the skinny models. They are not designing for women, they are designing for design's sake and their first year is fraught with super tiny sizes. However, if you look at the older designers who "get it" such as Diane von Furstenberg, MaxMara, Yves St Laurent, they KNOW how to create clothing that makes a woman look and feel beautiful. What you see on the runway are collections they put together on an extremely tight deadline (thus they drape on forms and fit on the models so that everything is just one size) but when they sell their collections to retailers, everything is adjusted to their ideal client. That's why I say find a few designers that fits you well and stick with them -- their fit model is probably proportioned like you. You hit one of my pet peeves Karen!

What I’ve noticed (especially when I was a buyer) was that the new designers (such as the ones featured here) don’t know how to design for a REAL woman’s body and are just used to draping on body forms. That’s why they need the skinny models. They are not designing for women, they are designing for design’s sake and their first year is fraught with super tiny sizes.

However, if you look at the older designers who “get it” such as Diane von Furstenberg, MaxMara, Yves St Laurent, they KNOW how to create clothing that makes a woman look and feel beautiful. What you see on the runway are collections they put together on an extremely tight deadline (thus they drape on forms and fit on the models so that everything is just one size) but when they sell their collections to retailers, everything is adjusted to their ideal client. That’s why I say find a few designers that fits you well and stick with them — their fit model is probably proportioned like you.

]]> By: Karen http://www.wardrobe911.com/mercedes-benz-fashion-week-spring-2009-designer-review/comment-page-1/#comment-331 Karen Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:04:55 +0000 http://www.style.wardrobe911.com/?p=456#comment-331 I love that shape-defining waistlines are still around for spring. Unfortunately, I cannot help but note that the last model in this post looks like a skeleton. I get that designers like the way clothes hang on thin models, but please! If designers don't think that their clothes look good on woman with at least a little something between her skin and her bones (like, heaven forbid, a 6" woman who weighs over 130 [or 120!] pounds), perhaps the designers need to work on their skills. Teresa -- Any idea if the skeleton look will ever end? I have to think it will, as fashion constantly evolves, but it's been awhile now. Eighties fashions came back (yipes), but the healthy looking (yet still thin) models from the '80s -- e.g., Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer, etc. -- their look apparently has not. I love that shape-defining waistlines are still around for spring. Unfortunately, I cannot help but note that the last model in this post looks like a skeleton. I get that designers like the way clothes hang on thin models, but please! If designers don’t think that their clothes look good on woman with at least a little something between her skin and her bones (like, heaven forbid, a 6″ woman who weighs over 130 [or 120!] pounds), perhaps the designers need to work on their skills. Teresa — Any idea if the skeleton look will ever end? I have to think it will, as fashion constantly evolves, but it’s been awhile now. Eighties fashions came back (yipes), but the healthy looking (yet still thin) models from the ’80s — e.g., Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer, etc. — their look apparently has not.

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