Wednesday, September 21, 2011

London Fashion Week Coverage

David Koma Spring 2012

David Koma’s Spring/Summer 2012 collection was an exercise in ferocious sexuality. Best known for his fit-like-a-glove dresses, Koma hangs his hat on this theme once more. This time, he incorporates some of the tribal prints we’ve been seeing so much of, but expands the prints so that they appear geometrically influenced rather than exotically influenced.

The first look sets the tone: a body-hugging sheer dress with cut-out shapes which leaves little to the imagination. Everything clings and hugs the curves, but the decorative possibilities allow Koma to be more creative. He takes this opportunity to incorporate forms of peplum, fringe, and blunt-cut layers arranged haphazardly around the bottom half of a dress. He experimented here with more layers than usual, and also had some really gorgeous trousers made from dévoré jersey in the mix. Later looks came glossed over in oily rainbow sheens, reminiscent of beetle carapaces. This edgy, worldly collection transformed Koma’s models into global goddesses, who marched the runway to the beat of their own bongos.

written by GRACE GORDON|photos: courtesy of GoRunway

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