Texas Film Festival
Friday, February 20, 2004
AGGIELIf!
THE BATTALIO
Fashion Week
Showing Tonight
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Fine art shouldn’t be
left to the unappreciative.
War Stories Panel
7:30
Come hear about our guest
DIRECTORS’ EXPERIENCES
DURING THEIR FILMMAKING.
The stories are always
ENTERTAINING SO
BRING YOUR QUESTIONS!
'throw it together and whatever happens, it looks
great,' " said Sue Patneaude, vice president of
designer apparel for Nordstrom. ‘And now there is
an undercurrent of wanting to feel pretty and dress
up,” as reported in USA Today.
The tailored jacket, especially in tweed, made
famous by Jackie O, is coming back with a
vengeance. Ruth La Ferla, a style reporter for The
Times, compared the fashion she saw on the runway
to another first lady.
“Pert skirts and prim coats, Peter Pan collars and
proper tweeds, some harking back to Mamie
Eisenhower's day, are refreshing and even subver
sive. They represent fashion's way of thumbing its
nose at the status quo and simply moving on.
Blouses with bows have never looked so avant-
garde,” La Ferla said.
Many journalists, photographers and fashion edi
tors were particularly fascinated by the women’s
wear. The men’s collections were stuck with the new
trend of dressing up in bright colors. Even Kenneth
Cole, who usually sticks with black and darker col
ors, had some shirts in fire-engine red, purple and
green. The snappy blazer is also a must-have for a
man’s fall wardrobe, basically anything in color.
“Color continues — bright colors, mixing colors
like brown with a little lime green or a little
turquoise, things you don't see a lot of in your clos
et," said Robert Jezowski, general merchandise
manager for Macy's in the eastern United States, as
reported in USA Today.
Another first for this Fashion Week, besides the
overwhelming wearability, was that Zac Posen, a 23-
year-old fashion genius, had a big tent in Bryant Park
for his show. Clifford Pugh of The Houston Chronicle
called Posen’s line “modem,” as there were some
metallic silver and bolero jackets in his line.
John C. Livas • THE BAMK
Tracey Roark, a senior finance major, dives intoclos;
50s garb with this pencil skirt. The black trim wittily uttP 1 ' 1
on the end proves it's all in the details.
Mostly all the designers jumped on the
bandwagon, so Pugh said he felt refreshed ti
Calvin Klein’s "lean yet sexy look,” after all tlj
“girly-girl frills.”
Jezowski attributes this shift into endless cola i^PP 6 '
and femininity to boredom. "Black will always sell
but it hasn’t to the level that it used to becausetheiei
already so much of it in so many closets.”
Godfrey Deeny, a senior editor/critic
FashionWireDaily.com, successfully summed if
the week: "There was a lot of what I
Republican chic,’ where the clothes are a bit
and schoolmarmish but still seem very kind of cod
at the moment.”
Uisit txfilmfesf.org for morel
The Spice Girls should be proud because girl
power is back. Designers at the NYC Fall
Fashion Week could not get enough of pastels,
polka dots and pleats.
Everything is flirty for the fall with ruffles galore
and floral prints that are undeniably feminine.
Maybe your elementary school teacher was ahead of
the time after all in her knee-length pencil skirt and
sweater set. The pencil skirt, which has an overtly
1950s feel, is incredibly flattering on any body type.
Part of this ultra-feminine style is the little details
such as big buttons on a trench coat, a pin on a
sweater or a bow in the form of a belt. Patrick
Robinson, a designer for Perry Ellis, told
Houston Chronicle that he found many of
broaches featured in the show on Ebay. This
brilliant idea to cut costs since some stores put afe>
beads and sequins on a safety pin and charge $50
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