A.F. Vandevorst
REVIEW
COMPLETE COLLECTION
PARIS, March 5, 2009
By Nicole Phelps
Filip Arickx and An Vandevorst are on their own trip. For Fall, they dreamed up a nomad who's "at home wherever she goes." They explained: She wears clothes with interesting new volumes constructed by integrating the squares, triangles, and circles of multiculti folkloric patterns into Western silhouettes.On the more obvious side, this concept resulted in a sleeping-bag coat in wool felt quilted up the back with geometric shapes; and silk dresses and rabbit-fur vests checkerboarded or chevroned in complementary shades of green, gray, and brown. On the subtler side, it produced trenches with built-out shoulders and a floor-length dress with eye-grabbing diamond-shaped insets on the sides. Tangentially, there were dolman-sleeved cotton shirts in horse-blanket stripes (one in loden green and black, the other ivory and black) worn with jodhpurs. But, unsurprisingly, this wasn't equestrian like you've seen it on other runways: Note the platform boots that looked like horse hooves. Still, footwear aside, this collection contained plenty of real-world clothes, not always a given at an A.F. Vandevorst show, and Filip and An should be taking plenty of girls along for the ride this season.
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