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Sandy Dalal: Back In New York
By: Mari Davis
Photos by: Visko Hatfield
Sep 8, 2001/ FW/ --- Sandy Dalal comes back to New York after showing in Milan's Menswear
Show for the past two seasons. Instead of a runway show, he held an installation at his
showroom.
For those of you who are new in fashion shows, an installation is a less formal presentation
than a runway show. Models stand at attention because they are literally "inspected"
by the media and retail buyers. It's just like a shopper inspecting the clothes on a mannequin.
But this time, a human model act as the mannequin.
It was a very subdued Spring 2002 collection for Sandy Dalal. He still used luxurious fabric like
most of his collections, but the magic is missing. Don't get me wrong. It is a great collection
and worthy of Saville Row, but the piazzaz that I expect from Sandy Dalal was not there. Where
is the brilliance that he showed in Milan last summer? Did geography play a role in this
collection?
With the New York Menswear show shrunked to just one day, there is really not a lot of
competition. But this is Sandy Dalal who dazzled the Milan crowd.
He did not break any new grounds in this collection. Rather, Sandy Dalal did a rehash of
his own groundbreaking designs. The one that attracted my attention is the fitted transparent
paisley shirt matched with plaid. Fitted transparent shirts are usually the bailiwick of
Tom Ford and the House of Versace. Sandy Dalal made it his own by using his signature work
on see-through Indian lacey fabric.
For Spring/Summer 2002, the Sandy Dalal man will be wearing bermuda shorts and slides for shoes.
For those cool Spring days, he would be wearing collarless jackets in light green and light
olive. Expect solid shirts with pipings on the neck in matching color. This is a highly wearable
collection and it is worth for a man to invest in some of the outfits in here.
Sandy Dalal Fashion
Sandy Dalal Fashion
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