Elise Overland [ZOO Daily] featuring Elise Overland
Light filters into a design studio where Elise Overland is surrounded by the artifacts of a vastly curious and creative mind: a pile of vinyl, an enormous costume history hardcover, clay vases, and other provocative textual treasures. Having done stage clothing design for the likes of huge corporate machines like the NFL during the Superbowl, it's obvious that Elise is ambitious about business, but upon meeting her you immediately get a sense of a hungry intellect. She describes her biggest challenge as a designer being the balance between two different cerebral operations of running a business and being a creative. more...
New York Fashion Week Spring 2008 :: Elise Overland featuring Elise Overland
Fearlessly sexy, but dignified, the clothes allowed skin to be articulately exposed with emphasis on the collarbones and shoulders, specifically in a piece being worn by many of the attendees and Elise herself, an open sleeved draped silk tunic. Sure to become a signature, the piece flattered many body types and translated the warrior DNA into something we can all access. [Xenia Viray] more...