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April 15, 2009 3:15 pm
“I’ve always liked gender-bender stuff,” said Minnie Mortimer Gaghan last night at her soirée in the glassy penthouse at the Cooper Square Hotel to preview her first full collection. True to the organic origins of the line (read: making stuff I want to wear), the designer was her own best advert, wearing a gray schoolboy blazer over a cotton shirt and navy shorts teeny enough to show off her enviable legs, shod in nude suede Louboutins. “Full” is, of course, a relative term. Mortimer Gaghan has expanded her smattering of breezy shirts and shirtdresses to an eight-piece collection that now includes some tailoring, like the aforementioned jacket plus a sweet woolen pinafore, both with checked linings. Her new shirts veer into slightly more femme territory: a ruffled Victorian and a pussy-bowed silk number. But don’t be fooled. Menswear is where Mortimer Gaghan’s fashion heart is—she admits to raiding the closet of her husband, the writer-director Stephen Gaghan, who surveyed last night’s scene of girls-and-clothes with brother-in-law Topper Mortimer, Tinsley’s better half, by his side. So, could Minnie, who’s already in 25 stores, have plans to be, say, the next Tory? Not for the moment. The new mom is going slow and steady. “I like the size of [the business],” she said. “I feel like I’m still learning about what I’m doing.”
tags: Christian Louboutin, Minnie Mortimer Gaghan, Tinsley Mortimer
