Jonathan Saunders Spring 2007 Ready-to-Wear Collection on Style.com: Runway Review

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Jonathan Saunders Spring 2007 Ready-to-Wear

LONDON, September 19, 2006

By Sarah Mower

Jonathan Saunders took a convincing step forward this season. "I didn't want to clutter a dress with print," he explained. Instead, he melded decoration into the structural design of his dresses. It made for softer, lighter, more graphically linear shapes, with the pattern worked into embroideries as well as printed zones. His starting point was a section of military braiding that he exaggerated and abstracted into knotted, curling surface patterns in cream-on-cream padded-satin embroidery. There were also subtle swirls and geometrics in gray, orange, and cornflower blue. Some of the shoulder-tab details and crystal embroideries, he said, were derived from armor, but the effects were anything but aggressive. Along the way, he came up with some clever devices, like layering a printed tabard over a fitted dress, or restricting pattern to just a belt. They gave the collection a sense of sophistication and delicacy that some of his previous more print-heavy clothes have lacked.

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A.F. Vandevorst	ADAM	Akris
Alberta Ferretti	Alessandro Dell'Acqua	Alexander McQueen
Alexandre Herchcovitch	Alice Roi	Andrew Gn
Anna Molinari	Anna Sui	Ann Demeulemeester
Antonio Berardi	Aquascutum

Badgley Mischka	Balenciaga	Balmain
Basso & Brooke	Behnaz Sarafpour	Belstaff
Biba	Bill Blass	Blumarine
Bottega Veneta	Burberry Prorsum

Calvin Klein	Carlos Miele	Carolina Herrera
Celine	Chado Ralph Rucci	Chaiken
Chanel	Chloé	Christian Dior
Christian Lacroix	Christopher Kane	Comme des Garçons
Costello Tagliapietra	Costume National

Danielle Scutt	Derek Lam	Diane von Furstenberg
DKNY	Donna Karan	Doo.Ri
Dries Van Noten	Dsquared²

Elie Saab	Emanuel Ungaro	Emilio Pucci
Emporio Armani	Erdem	Erin Fetherston
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