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//DDD//BCBGMAXAZRIA, Fall 2012

Written by Gordon West, Contributing Fashion Editor @itakemycamera Photography by Billy Rood www.figphoto.net @figphoto.net Cohesion through contrast was the overall aesthetic for BCBG’s Fall 2012 collection. Not one to conservatively choose a palette, colors ran the gamut from cream, coral, paprika, merlot, ochre, olive, teal, navy to evergreen. Such a range might easily get muddled and perilously lost in itself elsewhere. But BCBG’s conscious effort to harmonize contrasting hues and textures delegated a sleek cohesiveness for the collection.

Dichotomized aesthetics like geometric color blocking married with oversized fur vests, crepe de chine with sturdy wool, and silks with leather all fused the seemingly antithetical, but never left the realm of sturdy, uncompromisable luxury and beauty. Looking at the predominant theme of geometry in the collection that gave each piece a cerebral confidence, one can’t help but recall the science fiction futuristic couture of Sean Young in Blade Runner. It can’t be said whether Max and Lubov Azria were influenced by the Tinsel Town rumors of a new Blade Runner as they sketched their Fall 2012 collection or not. But it can indubitably be said that any self respecting woman should be influenced by BCBG to immediately invest in some abstract geometrics.