Georgine’s Fall Winter 17 collection was a refreshing sight channeling tasteful punk with an eye for youth.
The proportions were easy on the eye, featuring knee length leather trench coats with gradient fur accents. Lace and lurex are usually a dangerous combination; however, Georgine redirected the fast fashion clichè into something as alternative as her fashion. The styling was consistent as not to distract from the clothes, which should become a more adapted practice among non minimalist designers. Each model wore jet black hair- windswept and unkempt yet fitting and sexy. Some donned aviators by Mykita, while others were accented with burnt orange eye shadow. The silhouettes were the only mildly disappointing aspect of the show, as almost all were cinched waist dresses, high waist shirts paired with a sheer top, or high waisted pants with the top tucked in- all giving the same effect. Consistency is imperative when analyzing a collection as a whole, but it almost appeared as the same garment was made over and over in different fabrics and colors.
With this aside, Georgine dressed her girls to impress this season, and her philosophy of “intricate detailing and extraordinary fabrics” shone through. Exemplary craftsmanship suits her well and nothing was left in the dust, including her conveyance of a mood and ability to weave a story through thirty-two short looks.
On the inspiration and the collection:
This is the FW17 collection and back in October we started to talk about the collection and about a long term stay hotel guest and sort of the opening of the Hotel Beekman downtown and how it has a modern appeal and how it captures escapism that people are looking for today. I started to think about Hotel Chelsea and how each room was very unique and suited to each long term guest that was staying at the hotel and it made me think of the Georgine suite and if people were staying in this hotel and the conversations we would have like after the election and escapism and creativity.
The colour palette has a lot of gold, greens, purples, navys, red, silver, and black. There’s always new ideas and new textiles were working with, new embroidery developments, like we did new fur techniques that we haven’t done in the past. We did a metallic mink which is a new treatment that has never been done before.
We also had the chance to talk to MAC Cosmetics lead makeup artist for the show, Romero Jennings:
The make up is grungy, almost like she’s wearing her mom’s clothes with her own face and her own make up, not being done. Lots of gloss on the eyelid, this sort of plumb-y sort of holographic eye that’s smokey and then a nude lip, lots of highlight and contour on the cheekbones. So grungy, edgy, cool girl, and punk at the same time but in really feminine and girly clothes. The color palette is reflective, holographic but with a smokey feel and greenish golds and a patent gloss for an amazing effect of the runway.
Backstage interviews by Tristen Yang.