An unexpected New York Fashion Week highlight was a hotel presentation for L.A.-based designer Stacey Clark’s Odilon brand. Just a few months after debuting her first collection at Los Angeles Fashion Week, Clark packed it up and revealed her newest designs at the Bryant Park Hotel.
At just twenty-three years old, the Canadian (who now lives and works in L.A.) showed a collection more intelligent-feeling than many of those from fashion veterans across the street at the Tents.
Thoughtful, wearable and expertly constructed — with a post-apocalyptic motif and high-tech fabrics (like neoprene) — the collection includes leather and furs and fabrics hand-worked to resemble, um, burnt flesh. One perfect S&M-infused chain & leather bag rounded out the collection. Even the presentation’s set up was stellar: champagne, nibbles and a friendly model who tried on various looks on request. Exactly the type of up-close and tactile experience the looks deserve.
We’d place our bets on Stacey Clark as the next big thing in any city.
Photos: (above) A model in Odilon, left, with designer Stacey Clark; (below) looks from Odilon’s Fall/Winter 2010 collection.
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