Sinha-Stanic

LONDON, September 19, 2006
By Sarah Mower
Sinha-Stanic were spot-on about one thing: the way fashion girls have taken to clomping around London on soles six inches thick. The show's perilously high wedges provided a focus—or rather a bit of a cliff-hanger. When, you wondered, would someone finally crash over?

As for the collection itself, Fiona Sinha and Aleksandar Stanic began by working their own relatively understated versions of London's bod-conscious revival. For them, it's about a super-cropped bolero and lots of zipper action, a theme derived from motocross biking. In their determination to drive their ideas away from the literal starting point, however, things got a little snarled up. Skirts with folded-down flaps and hemlines trimmed with zippers only ended up suggesting one thing: "Ouch!"

These designers are better when they don't try too hard to be part of the gang. Has their customer, who was initially drawn to the believable, career-friendly modernism of their clothes, suddenly morphed into a seeker of skimpy bandage dresses? Their natural talents veer more toward clean, artistic prints on fluid chiffon and cool reinterpretations of pantsuits. Thank goodness, they managed to show a couple of those—but in the end, the last model did fall.

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