GIRLS RULE: FALL 2000
It has always felt to us that behind Girls Rule! is a great slogan rather than an important theory: Teen Power! But great slogans have won great wars-- which helps explain why Girl's Rule producer Darren Greenblatt has been winning increased attention to the young design talent behind creative teen apparel. For six years Greenblatt has been giving us shows that provoke big thoughts about production, distribution, market, price-point, and the relationship between established couture and the evolving street scene, as well as about more designer-y issues of silhouette, fabric, and the like.
This year's show incorporated collections by five labels: Hybrid, Planet Yumthing, OP, Chuck Roaste, and One. The best by far was Hybrid, designed by Aissa Martin-- showing imagination (in, say, the long, sexy "bustle" skirt in tyvek, with a horizontal band of elastic just below the butt, or the fiercely glamorous white blanket coat) and an interpretation of luxe that makes sense for a girl of 2000 (the iguana camouflage polar fleece zip vest with matching gloves). With this season's "global urban nomad" looks, Martin again pushes the boundary of creativity in popularly priced urban sportswear, thereby rocking our world at least as much the genius stitchers who have zillionaire clients. Great Look: Martin's version of the open-shouldered long-sleeve top, which she calls a "Barbarella top."
The rest of the collections looked a little too tiresomely granny or improbably Western ranch to our eyes. Best Moment: a model in the Chuck Roaste show stopped halfway down the runway, pulled off her jeans, turned them inside out, put them back on again and kept walking. It was done with kicky humor-- Roaste is offering "the world's first reversable jeans"-- and brought a round of spontaneous applause.
This year's show incorporated collections by five labels: Hybrid, Planet Yumthing, OP, Chuck Roaste, and One. The best by far was Hybrid, designed by Aissa Martin-- showing imagination (in, say, the long, sexy "bustle" skirt in tyvek, with a horizontal band of elastic just below the butt, or the fiercely glamorous white blanket coat) and an interpretation of luxe that makes sense for a girl of 2000 (the iguana camouflage polar fleece zip vest with matching gloves). With this season's "global urban nomad" looks, Martin again pushes the boundary of creativity in popularly priced urban sportswear, thereby rocking our world at least as much the genius stitchers who have zillionaire clients. Great Look: Martin's version of the open-shouldered long-sleeve top, which she calls a "Barbarella top."
The rest of the collections looked a little too tiresomely granny or improbably Western ranch to our eyes. Best Moment: a model in the Chuck Roaste show stopped halfway down the runway, pulled off her jeans, turned them inside out, put them back on again and kept walking. It was done with kicky humor-- Roaste is offering "the world's first reversable jeans"-- and brought a round of spontaneous applause.
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