//DDD// Art: Degas Trend Report by Lynn Furge
By Senior Fashion Editor Lynn Furge
Master in the depiction of movement, Edgar Degas’ dance themed sculptures and paintings were a study in both form and color. Ballet inspired dresses floated down runways from New York to Paris with the same intentions.
Antonio Berardi starting off with a vintage fencing silhouette but evolved the idea using tones of ballet slipper pink chiffon. Band of Outsiders modernized the idea where the shapes still nipped in at the waist and gathered out, but paired with slouchy knitwear on top and iridescent fabric, a more pop culture ballerina emerged. David Koma took his audience on a tour of Swan Lake, starting out white and innocent with tutu shaped cocktail frocks and ended with black leather versions of the same silhouette as the presentation hardened.
Erdem Moralioglu of his namesake line Erdem literally took the prints and shapes he saw being curated for the Ballets Russe exhibit and placed them on his models. J. Mendel using more of the fabric as inspiration made everything from little bolero jackets to 40’s style mermaid gowns feather light with tulle and accessorized with ribbon wrapped heels like a prima ballerina herself.
I wouldn’t be surprised if half the gowns end up at the up-coming New York City Ballet gala. But it was Nina Ricci’s Peter Copping who shocked the audience with color and perspective all while producing the most fragile lovely dresses in all of Paris Fashion Week.
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