New York Fashion Week :: Boudicca [The ZOO]

Boudicca :: Fall 2006

The Invisible City was the title of the Boudicca show. The setting was unusually eerie, a studio in the Meatpacking District, had us surrounded by windows and a view of the city's lights. The sky was approaching darkness and so were we. It seemed as if time had stopped, just for that one moment. The melancholy piano music entered the room and Boudicca's visions stepped out. It was a look to the future taken from the past. She was a Victorian gothic from the future filled with subtle hints of eroticism. Jackets and pants were so sharply cut, they should be deemed dangerous. High neck stiff collars held shirts together while leather corset belts mapped out the straight androgynous silhouette of a pant. Men's suitings were exquisitely rendered and tailored, while in the "axis skirt" two straight lines lead to a bustled skirt in Italian striped wool. It's quite important to note that other than just designing clothes for the future, this duo would like to make a difference in the way
clothing is produced as well. Ingeo fiber completed the last look, the first and only man- made fiber produced from 100% annually renewable resources, not oil. The collection triumphed in achieving Boudicca's vision of the girl in the Invisible City, and though she likes to hide her feelings behind all those strong constricting clothes, we all know she still has a heart. [Rania Abu Eid] more...