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August 13, 2010 10:00 am
Erdem Moralioglu is on the phone from London to talk lace, a fabric he’s used season in and season out for years. “I’m obsessed with it!” the designer says with a laugh. “I’ve always been into it, exploring it and experimenting with it.”
A quick rummage through the archive confirms his assertion. (That’s a look from his Resort collection, left.) But this year, the designer isn’t alone in his appreciation for the fabric. Designers all over (and their oft-photographed patrons and muses) have embraced the feminine charms of lace, which has shed its occasionally matronly air and feels sexy and chic (Miuccia Prada, as usual, may have got there first—her Fall 2008 collection famously explored the fabric’s erotic undertones). Now there are evening-ready gowns for Resort at Alexander McQueen and Carolina Herrera, along with sportier, even boyish pieces at Giambattista Valli. (And don’t even get us started on lace-accented accessories and cosmetics, like Cesare Paciotti’s new lace-print soles and Dolce & Gabbana’s new Sicilian Lace makeup collection.)
So what’s the appeal? “I think people are searching for things that have quite a human hand to them,” Moralioglu says. “It has such a handmade feel. There’s an attraction to owning something one of a kind—I think, as a fabric, lace has that.”
Click here for our slideshow of some of the lacy looks, and let us know whether you’ll be playing peekaboo, too, this fall.
tags: Alexander McQueen, Carolina Herrera, Cesare Paciotti, Dolce and Gabbana, Erdem, lace, Miuccia Prada, Prada, Style Hunter
simply marvellous!!
By niharika on 08/15/10 at 5:14 ambriliant….
By Dimy on 08/16/10 at 11:48 amim glad to see lace finally showing face. its very romantic.
By tora on 08/17/10 at 6:42 pmjust shaped a $2 offwhite tablecloth into a fabulous dress…all about the lace
By ellebelle89 on 08/17/10 at 7:25 pm