You know those first few moments on a roller coaster: the sounds of the slowly moving cart trailing up the peak of a ride? This pulse-racing moment informs you of the wild ride you’re about to encounter with loads of thrills that are soon to crawl surreptitiously up your spine. This is the exact feeling that was most likely felt by audiences anxiously awaiting the start of Korean-born fashion designer Yeojin Bae’s Rosemount Australian Fashion Week Spring/ Summer 2011 collection debut. Admittedly, this fashion heavy-hitter who has worked as a senior designer for the labels Charlie Brown and SABA, as well as a once coveted intern for Marc Jacobs and Anna Sui, pilled on the intrigue with such expertise. As a fashion veteran for 13 years, with an instant Barney’s-bought 2006 collection and award-nominating resume, of course the audience’s adrenaline was pumping for a front-running standout collection to be presented at Australia’s favorite and highly anticipated annual style celebration.
Taking place in the beginning of May, Rosemount Australian Fashion Week (RAWF) took place against the spectacular backdrop of Circular Quay. This premier fashion industry event provides a platform for designers to showcase their wholesale collections to the world’s most influential buyers and media. The five-day triumph is the Asia Pacific’s stop on the international fashion week circuit joining Paris, Milan, New York and London.
Knowing how to create a fabulous and flirty silhouette, Bae put her skills to work as she so aptly demonstrated in her latest collection. Caring to share, in an exclusive one-on-one interview with Asian Fashion, Bae told us how her the inspiration for fabric, colors, and theme of this collection derived from lingerie. “I wanted to create a very feminine, yet wearable collection,†she said. Notably, silk fabrics were used to create lightness and vivid fluidity and summery palettes of shades of red, blush and peaches with punches of cobalt were used. Her favorite piece from this collection was on innately cool Julia Nobis, in her opening peach dress that summed up the look and feel of the collection. Concluding the interview, Bae described her collection in three words: feminine, polished, and effortless.
Truly inspiring ensembles payed rightful homage to their singular romantic aesthetics as they were presented on the catwalk. The collection captivated its audience with its easy sexiness and clear-lined sophistication. Deceptive in its simplicity, Bae’s designs were masterfully intricate in their detailing and so expertly balanced the tension between masculine and feminine form. When recreating boudoir style, Bae’s lingerie-inspired hourglass silhouettes were as modern as they were reminiscent. The silhouettes were pin-tucked by hand with lineal panelling accentuating the female figure. Adding a touch of outspoken glamour, the collection’s razor sharp tailoring offered a unique take on lingerie-infusion for the ceaseless amount of classic-yet-irresistible looks.
With subtle sex appeal and clever classicism each of her pieces, each envisaging an intelligent, confident, and independent woman, Bae’s future in fashion will have much visual intrigue.
Images Courtesy of MCM PR for Yeojin Bae
Author:Â MONICA BEDI
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