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ABOVE: Philip Bloch. OTHER
PHOTOGRAPHS: A Blade Runner mood at Magda Berliner.
Wardrobe stylist and consultant turned designer, Magda Berliner lends a sharp edge in what is sometimes deemed a dull group of mainstream designers
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Magda Berliner
FOLLOWING Rodriguez was a small intimate
and creative look at the art of Magda Berliner. Wardrobe stylist
and consultant turned designer, Magda Berliner lends a sharp edge
in what is sometimes deemed a dull group of mainstream designers.
Instead of a high-budget runway show complete with pomp and much
circumstance, Berliner opted for a more subdued, less commercial
approach.
Letting only a small number of people in at a
time, you entered a gleaming white room to find a crowd of people
mulling around, looking a bit confused. Once I was able to sift
through, I found I was surrounded by mannequins displaying the newest
Berliner collection. Towards the front of the room were a group
of models sitting as still as statues, displaying peasant looking
dresses with hair and make-up right out of the movie Blade Runner,
with a mixture of creamy colours, earth tones and pastels on deconstructed
jackets, tapestry bustiers and ’60s inspired hippy-dresses.
There didn’t seem to be much symmetry in this collection, rather
the opposite, portrayed in Berliner’s last collection as well.
Though I wasn’t especially impressed with the
collection, there were a few celebrities and stylists that were.
Mistaking Tracee Ellis Ross, the star of the United Paramount Network
(UPN) sitcom Girlfriends, for
someone I knew in San Francisco began my LA
crash course education. Next I ran into Phillip Bloch, celebrity
stylist and author, who was casually speaking with his mother, and
was kind enough to pause for a photo op. Mr Bloch was a main inspiration
for myself as a youth, and one of the first reasons I focused my
love for colour and art, in a fashion direction in the first place.
Playing nonchalant and professional, I thanked him for his time,
and quickly dragged my photographer out of the room, as I had to
make a speedy exit before my legs gave out beneath me. I then realized,
it was going to be a long week.
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