New York Fashion Week :: Kai Milla [The ZOO]

Kai Milla :: Fall 2006

In the Grand Ballroom of the New Yorker Hotel Kai Milla, a rookie to fashion week, showed her Fall 2006 collection to a star studded audience, including her husband Stevie Wonder. The collection started out strong with white and black looks dominating the runway?¢‚Ç¨¬¶ with a Matrix sort of feel. Then slowly, rich colors of yellow, coral and cobalt were found tucked away within every other piece or so, bringing the feel of the collection to a more present time. High wasted pants paired with ruffle front blouses; pencil skirts that fell a few inches below the knee and jackets with strong high collars provided the daywear for the Mrs. Milla customer. Eveningwear was just as tailored and structured with leather, silk and organza pieced together in a way that looked as if it was sewn on the model. The crowd was not shy to show their excitement for their favorites. Family and friends literally oohed and ahhed as the models walked on in highly technical and somewhat complicated pieces. Such an abundant presence of stitching, crochet, bell sleeves and other embellishments proved that attention to detail was not over looked. Which reminds me that sometimes less is more, although somehow overall it worked. [Meghan Casey] more...