PARIS – Arzu Kaprol, the Turkish designer whose Paris debut last March provided the season’s unintentional comic relief, was back with a more polished display Wednesday – this time, without the audience or models breaking into laughter.
The clothes in the spring-summer 2012 ready-to-wear collection were basically hard-edged clubbing gear, short sheath dresses and sharp-shouldered jackets in body-hugging fabrics. Much of the looks felt derivative, with precious little to distinguish them from similar sex-drench going-out gear that floods catwalks and high streets worldwide.
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But still, you could see a certain type of girl buying and wearing them – something that cannot be said of many of the Paris collections, which are utterly removed from women’s reality.
Plus, there were a few standout pieces, like an ivory silk blouse with sleeves made out of little rolled tubes of fabric which had a vaguely Ottoman feel.
Last season, high-profile Canadian model Jessica Stam lost it on the runway when she had to don a giant plastic egg – and in truth it would have been impossible not to crack a smile.
But Stam continued to smirk away this season, shooting a sideways glance at a friend in the audience and laughing, even though there was nothing funny in Kaprol’s much-improved follow-up effort Wednesday.
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