Word: organza
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These days, there's a lot more of that sort of thing. She appeared at a 2008 state dinner for Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah in a raspberry-colored silk blouse and matching organza skirt. She's taken to pairing well-cut trousers with bright, ethnic print blouses this summer. And she recently gave the famously well-dressed Carla Bruni a run for her money, when she received the French first lady in a plum Felipe Varela bandage-dress whose horizontal lines emphasized (in the most ladylike way possible, of course) her fine figure...
...either way. Some, like Dries Van Noten, will be inspired by a flower he finds in the archives but will ask for it to be enlarged. Others, like Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, want something that is completely new. This season Ratti suggested painting on muslin-like organza. The result: their brilliant collection of dresses inspired by artist Julian Schnabel's canvases. Then there is Miuccia Prada, who invests a tremendous amount of time and interest in fabric development. Describing the designer as innovative, Ratti remembers a series of checks being printed directly onto knitwear and geometric motifs onto...
...Miuccia Prada collaborated with architect Rem Koolhaas and graphic-design company 2x4 to create dizzying backdrops for her Art Nouveau-inspired prints. Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana opened their show with a video of an artist painting a canvas with flowers. The models appeared in dresses of hand-painted organza. Although there was no direct collaboration, the brilliant layers of opaque color that Raf Simons created for the Jil Sander show looked like an homage to the color-field works of painters like Mark Rothko and Ellsworth Kelly...
...from crumb catchers à la old Dior to Vivienne Westwood--inspired corsetry; the next time exploring every variation of lace. And she created her signature look: elegant, Charles James--style structuring, often adorned with a subtle flourish?a bow made to look like origami or a small cloud of organza...
...simple sportswear shapes, Costa brings a refined sense of color and an appreciation for innovative fabrics. He opened the show with a passage of skinny, high-waisted pants in shades of chalk, pale pink and putty and then punctuated a crisp, natural palette with two drop-dead simple organza T-shirt dresses in grass green and - what else? - sky blue...