Ralph Lauren - NY SS2010. Thursday September 17 ,2009. Skylight Studios - New York Hard times. The Great Recession we're all living through got Ralph Lauren thinking about American resiliency.
"I am inspired by the character of the worker, the farmer, the cowboy, the pioneer women of the prairies," he wrote in his program notes.
So in place of the polo fields or any of his other tony stomping grounds,
It was cinematic, .
And it goes without saying that his vision is a romanticized one: Henry Fonda's character in The Grapes of Wrath didn't carry a lizard-skin bag.
In fact, the show played like a rags-to-riches tale,
. After a few white cotton organdy dresses and some thirties-esque suitsthink pinstriped three-pieces
with cropped and gathered pants or a boxy d.b. with fuller trousersthe work jackets and carpenter pants reappeared in blue ombré silk charmeuse,
the nightshirts came striped with beads,
and the overalls were transformed into a floor-grazing lamé dress A pair of evening jeans,
completely covered in silvery beads save for the fraying holes, took the concept to the limit.
"I am inspired by the character of the worker, the farmer, the cowboy, the pioneer women of the prairies," he wrote in his program notes.
So in place of the polo fields or any of his other tony stomping grounds,
It was cinematic, .
And it goes without saying that his vision is a romanticized one: Henry Fonda's character in The Grapes of Wrath didn't carry a lizard-skin bag.
In fact, the show played like a rags-to-riches tale,
. After a few white cotton organdy dresses and some thirties-esque suitsthink pinstriped three-pieces
with cropped and gathered pants or a boxy d.b. with fuller trousersthe work jackets and carpenter pants reappeared in blue ombré silk charmeuse,
the nightshirts came striped with beads,
and the overalls were transformed into a floor-grazing lamé dress A pair of evening jeans,
completely covered in silvery beads save for the fraying holes, took the concept to the limit.
