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October 24, 2008 4:00 pm
Not to blow our own horn, but Style.com scored a first for Richard Nicoll in London: a trunk show, by democratic demand. “Right after Richard’s show was posted, our customers started calling personal shopping,” said Kate Brindley, the PR of Liberty, as she was buffeted by fans converging on the space in which the designer had set up his bright, color-blocked collection on mannequins last night. The pristine swath of tangerine, pink, cerise, and aqua lasted just 20 minutes before the young Australian was busy stripping things off again as customers, editors, and friends tussled over trying-on rights to three-color toga dresses, pleat-front pants, and striped tanks. “People are really liking the color,” he grinned. “And they’re buying. Even though ordering in advance just isn’t a British habit.” Maia Norman (a.k.a. Mrs. Damien Hirst) cut through the melee and made a swift strike on Nicoll’s pants—”No one cuts like him!” she pronounced—before making off to her next target, an auction of surfboards at Bonhams. In the crush, Nicoll’s model friend Ben Grimes-Viort was wearing a brocade halter dress that looked as if it had been made for her, and had been, in a way. “I’ve been working with Richard since his first collection,” she said. “He basically draws on my body.” Grimes-Viort was there with her friend, Lily Parker, an ex-pattern cutter for Nicoll. The pair confided they’ve put their heads together and come up with an enterprise of their own, LP.BG, a collection of cute blouses and jumpsuits the junior league of London editors is jostling to snap up. Competition for Nicoll, then? “No!” blushed Grimes-Viort. “We’re only in our first season!”
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By RandiC on 10/24/08 at 4:18 pm