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Aug 28, 2002/ FWD/ --- Daryl K is back in business. Designer Daryl Kerrigan has repurchased
the rights to her name from the much-maligned Leiber Group, and will launch her label once
again with a capsule collection at Henri Bendel in October.
Kerrigan burst onto the downtown design scene in the '90s with her low-slung slim pants
and sexy suits.
The Irish native studied at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, and made
the move to the Big Apple at 22.
By 1996, she had won the CFDA's Perry Ellis Award for Womenswear.
In April 2000, The Leiber Group, then called Pegasus Apparel, acquired her Daryl K and K-189
labels.
Only a year later, however, the fledgling luxury fashion group stopped production on
Daryl K's fall 2001 collection and her stores in New York and LA closed down in April 2001.
Kerrigan's highly anticipated return to the fashion scene this fall began with a project
she's putting forth with New York Times Magazine style editor Amy Spindler.
The designer has crafted several one-of-a-kind pieces for prominent fashion personalities -
and loyal Daryl K customers - like Vogue's Camilla Nickerson and photographers Inez van
Lamsweerde and Ellen Von Unwerth.
The eight looks will be featured in The New York Times Magazine and some items will appear
on the racks at Bendel with the rest of her small new collection.
On September 19, the department store will fete Kerrigan's comeback with a party following
Narciso Rodriguez's New York Fashion Week presentation.
The event will likely include an informal fashion show, in which Nickerson and the
others plan to model their custom-made ensembles.
Miguel Adrover, another Leiber Group casualty, is also making a comeback this season.
The company pulled the plug on his business last October, but the Spanish designer has
now regrouped and will show his spring/summer 2003 collection in Bryant Park Bryant Park
on September 21.
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