SPACE designer Caitlin Price is a part of Fashion East, a nonprofit incubator of sorts supported by Topshop and the city of London. Success stories of the initiative include fellow SPACE designers Roksanda, Simone Rocha and Marques’Almeida. Not bad company at all.
This was Price’s second London Fashion Week presentation with Fashion East, and her second round of “exploring British rituals of dressing up and going out.” Not, like, going out to a nice dinner or the opera, but going out to a rave. The ’90s are really and truly alive and well for spring ’16—here’s a closer look.
Actually, you probably could go out to dinner and the opera in the gorgeous navy dress on the left, but Price’s collection ties closely to her current season, in which ultra-girly elements play hardball with the sport look.
Complex pleating and cutaway zippers allow for a smart, fun mix of eveningwear and clubwear; the duality is underlined with combined materials (a mix of silk and polyester taffeta) and colors (Pepto-pink and feminine blues).
The other Fashion East designers showing with Price out in Soho yesterday were This Is The Uniform., whose models played ping pong and sat around eating fries and lollipops.
And, tucked inside colorful rooms that had been coated with opaque and salmon-tinted plastic wrap: Richard Malone.
And all the Fashion East designers cast and directed their models intelligently: women of diverse shapes, sizes, ethnic backgrounds and occupations. It’s certainly been a mini-trend so far this season. Maybe the new generation of models aren’t models at all.
Shop: current season Caitlin Price at SPACE
—Laura Cassidy
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