Bright Colors, Bold Prints Make Adam, DVF Shows Pop
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In dark economic times, two designers are brightening things up with bold colors and animal prints. NY1's George Whipple filed the following report from the Adam and Diane von Furstenberg shows. Designer Adam Lippes presented his fall 2009 collection under the big top in Bryant Park. Lippes says art is his inspiration.
"This season I went to an exhibit of Japanese photographs that were hand tinted. They're from the 1850s, and it was at the Harvard Peabody Museum," says Lippes. "And there were these incredible colored photographs of geishas and their kimonos and samurai and cherry blossoms and I took that and really worked with that."
Bright colors and Japanese-inspired prints popped on the runway.
"There's a really great, great bright, bright blue. There's a fuchsia. There's a hot, hot pink mixed in with a little bit of black and heather grays and a lot of cream, but color is really important," says the designer.
Printed fabrics are always en vogue at Diane von Furstenberg shows.
In her fall 2009 collection, we saw leopard, animal, camo and plaid coming down the runway. The feel was tribal, layered with fabrics created by indigenous peoples.
"The collection is called "Nomad," but really the whole point is that wherever she goes, she belongs," says Furstenberg. "And her clothes are her friends. I just wanted to make clothes that are real clothes and every piece is a strong piece by itself and it makes you feel good and cozy and powerful."