Reem Acra

NEW YORK, February 5, 2007
By Laird Borrelli
With brilliant jewel velvets and golden jacquards, Reem Acra was shooting for "modern decadence." Her cleverest conceit for Fall was an unexpected play between front and back: Coco Rocha, for example, greeted the audience in a gleaming emerald silk charmeuse dress, but when she turned and headed back up the runway—hey, presto!—she was trailing a waft of chiffon.

Focusing on the vibrancy of these colors and textures, Acra kept decoration to a minimum, indulging mainly in Deco-beaded shoulder straps and belts on the pretty (if too numerous) velvet flapper frocks. There was a hint of Paul Poiret in a fur-trimmed manteau and a taffeta coat with a sack-back. But the bias-cut pants, in chiffon and velvet, had more of a matronly than vintage appeal.

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