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Horsing around

Posted by Michele Obi on Tuesday, 23 January 20078 Comments

After a lengthy debate with myself I can safely say that I liked the couture presentation from Felipe Olivera Baptista for Spring Summer 2007. It wasn’t love at first sight but after careful inspection, I became fond of his concept. Maintaining the spirit of his past collections he kept his palette clean with black, white and the addition of metallic silver. The collection seemed to be underlined by an eccentric equestrian theme reminiscent of Balenciaga which for me Baptista took to another level by fearlessly experimenting with horse shaped head wear and what appeared to resemble horse hair hanging in between jackets and draped over platforms.

While I wasn’t too keen on either the head/foot wear I did like his use of volume and structure. Sleeves were consistently voluminous and his fondness for circular shapes prevailed into this season resulting in my favourite piece of the collection, this dimensional mid length dress.

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Tags: couture-week, Felipe-Olivera-Baptista, haute-couture, spring, summer
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Michele Obi is the publisher and founder of My Fashion Life. In between editing, freelancing and spending most of her time on the internet, she also finds time to shop (too much) and obsess over shoes. She loves sushi and counts Matthew Williamson, John Galliano, Valentino and Hussein Chalayan as her favourite designers. Her biggest regret - never seeing Prince in concert!
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- 26 January 2007 at 8:37 pm

Jen said:

I highly suspect that the concept here is Chess. These designs look loosely like a walking chess board.

- 5 February 2007 at 12:50 am

Michele Obi (author) said:

See…I did think that for a while but chess didn’t explain the pieces which were reminiscent of swans. I interpreted the collection as revolving around the aspect of horse riding and the scenery encountered when out riding, for example lakes inhabited by swans