As a female womenswear designer, Roksanda Ilincic designs beautiful dresses for women – after all, she knows what women want. With their elegant cuts, simple, unfussy details and spot-on use of colours, she knows how to make good frocks. This season she showed in the rather fancy surrounds of the Institute of Directors, with her models sashaying down a catwalk surrounded by regal oil paintings and wall tapestries.
For Spring/Summer 2012, Roksanda stuck to what she does best; feminine dresses which play with volume and shape. She sent out floor-length gowns with fishtail hemlines, tulip-shaped skirts with pleats galore, and dresses with dolman sleeves or flared cuffs. Her palette swayed from neon brights (fuchsia, orange and aqua) to monochrome black and white prints. When she didn’t play with shape, she relied on colour to add interest to her dresses; her simple column dresses featured bands of contrasting neon colours at the bottom, and she used orange rope belts to add a little pop to her looks. The best moment of the show was when Charlotte Free (she of the pink hair) stormed down the runway in the first neon pink look.
London Fashion Week 2011
The Front Row
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