John Rocha: Fresh & Creative
By Michelle Taylor

LONDON, Feb 19, 2004/ FW/ – After over 20 years experience, Dublin based London Fashion Week essential John Rocha still manages to design a collection that is seemingly fresh and creative as vintage looks walked the catwalk for his Fall 2004/05 show.

Unfinished edging and smart functional pieces such as his trenches are part of this strong collection where hemlines are either above the knee in roomy skirts or fall to the floor.

Rocha is canny in his attention to detail through apparent haphazard appliqué and the use of ribbons tied into bows, often oversized, for closures on tops and on lovely overcoats around the neck, give the collar a striking and at times regal importance.

A key piece in this collection is the cape, which has been modified and stylised for daily metropolitan wear as are his overcoats and jackets that have abandoned the traditional collar and lapel which at times have been removed all together.

Large knitwear and crochet are chic and urban in their stylised messiness while Rocha uses patchwork and fabric piecing together to create patterns such as optical circles in white on simple little black dresses.

Feminine with volume, his skirts and dresses are not glued to the silhouette, but this does not mean that they are for the shapely all the same.

John Rocha dresses his women elegantly and individually with style and softness, proving once again why he is one of the fore players in helping to keep up London’s reputation that it indeed a hotspot for sellable originality.

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John Rocha

John Rocha

John Rocha

John Rocha