The Vawk F/W 2012 collection, entitled
Sci-fi Samurai, was made up of japanese-style structured blazers and dresses (aka Kimono sleeves, straight Samurai-esque lapels) mixed with fur trimmed leather biker jackets and gloves, wide copper leather belts, and copper sequins to give it a sci-fi biker chick feel. The collection mixed the two themes, badass biker and badass japanese chick, to create the ever-so intriguing badass-japanese-biker-chick look. A look, I thought, was pretty damn badass. Having sleek japanese tailoring and biker pieces in the same collection worked really well together. The collection was edgy but sophisticated and serious (like a samurai!) The incorporation of copper sequins and wide copper leather belts gave the show the sci-fi aspect it was going for. Also, the leather caps the models were wearing were super
Fifth Element or
Blade Runner. Vawk designer Sunny Fong even went a little Girl With a Dragon Tattoo this season with a silk black cutout dress with leather koi fish tattoo detailing. The tattoo detail was also incorporated in other looks like the samurai blazer, and tattoo sleeve gown.
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Kimono blazer
photo: Elayne |
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Samurai blazer with tattoo top
photo: Elayne |
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Fur trimmed biker jacket
photo: Elayne |
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Silk kimono dress with leather fur-front biker gloves
photo: Elayne |
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Silk cut-out dress with koi tattoo detail
photo: Elayne |
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Plum silk kimono dress with wide copper leather belt
photo: Elayne |
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Copper sequin finale dress with copper leather belt
photo: Elayne |
I went back stage after the show to try and get a interview with the already over-booked designer, and guess who was there. Ms Jeanne Beker! As soon as Sunny Fong saw here he left whatever poor journalist he was talking to to give her a hug and chat it up. I happend to be two inches away from them. Apparently Jeanne
really liked the tattoo detail as well.
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Sunny Fong and Jeanne Beker backstage
photo: Elayne
Jeanne: "I just looooooooved that tattoo detailing. Fantastic."
Sunny: "Thank you thank you!"
Elayne: in her head - "Wow. I'm totally being a creeper right now.. I should play it cool" (snaps 170 photos) |
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