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Reported by Kate Betts, Sarah Raper Larenaudie, Camilla Morton, Nadia Mustafa, Kate Novack, Josh Patner, Michiko Toyama, Rebecca Winters and Kristina Zimbalist
Among them are Josh Patner and Bryan Bradley, who constitute the design team Tuleh, a purveyor of fetching party wear. In business for just one year, the partners last week won a nomination for the prestigious Perry Ellis Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America. Sportswear too is flourishing, notably in the output of Patrick Robinson and Pixie Yates. And even ball gowns have a tasteful advocate in William Calvert, whose collection is sure to be the highlight of this week's South of Seventh event in New York City, which is intended to showcase the work...
...bold silk prints, all part of the duo's protest against fashion's I'm-off-to-my-assembly-line-job-on-a-Mars-colony strain of chic. "There is an overly intellectualized, nihilistic approach to fashion at the end of the century that is predictable and dreary," says Patner, "and why should women be dreary...
...Patner, 36, a former stylist, and Bradley, 32, a freelance designer who had worked for Calvin Klein, were emboldened to launch their own line when they determined, as Bradley puts it, that "women were looking for something to buy in a shade that wasn't beige." Their instinct was right. At the posh boutique Ultimo in Chicago and Dallas, half of Tuleh's spring '99 line was sold, through orders, before the clothes even reached the stores...
Yates creates simple but dainty dresses and pants that signal a wistfulness for an era when playful flirtation was the language that reigned between men and women. Her pricing, unlike her peers', is relatively quaint too, with a ceiling of $300. Like Tuleh's Patner, Yates is a former stylist. In the early '90s she began to make clothes in her spare time. When she took them to photo shoots, the models couldn't keep their hands off them. In the past year her garments have made their way into Barney's New York and Henri Bendel, where they...