A D?ɬ©tacher :: New York Fashion Week Spring Summer 2009 featuring A D?ɬ©tacher
'She could not answer all their questions, especially not those about her clothing. She had only done her best to protect her enlarged heart.' - A Detacher. Monika Kowalska is an artist. You could tell it from the first sentence of the first page of her program. You could see it in her choice of 'Joan of Arc' as her character, the cleverly done and heavenly-executed crown-of-thorns hair, and muted somber palette. But there is joy in the A Detacher Spring 2009 Collection (Kowalska's first runway presentation). It lies in the painstakingly knit rope detailing, the risky 'diaper' dress that was neither dress nor jumper, and the playful silk underpants. Monika Kowalska is no new kid on the blog. Her maturity is obvious in her design: fabrication, silhouette, and color are used with experienced deliberation. Her 'ambiguous' print looked like a leopard at night; her Dastre dresses hung like a dress just slipped off the shoulders; and her oversized rolled detail more...