Hasta La Ideas

What Nicole Miller’s Fall 2009 collection lacked in color choices, it more than made up for in creativity with cuts. This new line highlighted the designer’s excellence in creating atypical solutions to the structure of the common mini dress. Unique adaptations to sleeves and necklines were the stand-out elements of the almost-entirely-black collection, and and tribal-like patterns epitomized the art within the bold motif of dark colors and strategically-placed strips of bright color. While sleeve styles appeared in a variety of lengths on the runway, many of them were embellished with sheer and contrasting accents, and others were flared, Jetson-style. Asymmetry was well-played with the use of slits, zippers, stitching, and draping sashes, but not overdone to a space-aged extreme. The the line’s assortment of necklines were a feast to the eye as they introduced high, v, criss-crossed, and more uncommonly shaped necklines and curves in ways that have never looked so becoming. The collaboration of distinctly different fabrics together with these fresh, free forms of frocks epitomize the sleekness so signature to the Nicole Miller name.

Colors: black, plum, bold, red and blue accents
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