Reem Acra's Fall 2015 collection was pure Victorian fantasy.
The lineup comprised of dresses-short dresses, mainly with long sleeves or fur toppers. The fabric of choice being lace,tulle and embroideries.
According to WWD,
Stevie Nicks is the Energizer Bunny of fashion references. She keeps going and going and going. Reem Acra found herself inspired by Nicks’ 24-Karat Gold exhibition last fall of digitally reprinted self-portrait Polaroids from the Seventies. The photos evoked a particular time when retooling the Victorian aesthetic was rampant. According to Acra, “This put me in a mood. I got inspired, I started to dig in my archives and found pieces of embroidery, feathers that I had collected since I was five years old. I was transported to my own world.”
The bulk of the lineup was comprised of short dresses, mainly with long sleeves or fur toppers — a smart move on Acra’s part if she hopes to lure in a “younger, cooler, rock-'n'-roll” customer, as she describes her “modern gypsy.”
There were signs of Nicks in the collection — handkerchief hems and Victorian pouf-sleeve tops and jackets — but the mood veered toward vintage, and even Ottoman, at points given the opulent metallic laces and embroideries. Stronger looks included an embellished pink mink coat over a short jeweled lace dress and a slate-green coat with gold thread detail. Restraint is not really a word in Acra’s vocabulary, but if applied here and there throughout this collection, it would have fared better.
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