Mizrahi: Singing for His Supper

Cathy Horyn, New York Times. Marilynn K. Yee, Photograph.|February 20, 2009

"... All I can say is: what a terrific, terrific show. So full of joy and life. Mizrahi used the Celeste Bartos Forum at the Public Library, with the models coming from two directions so that there were usually three girls at once on the runway. They moved constantly, without posing. You’d turn your head one way and then the other, trying to take everything in. The music was a jazzy, hammering piano number that thoroughly went with the spirit of the clothes.

Of course, it was funny that he turned little handbags into hats, handles up, and put some of the models in leather-and-fur slides. But Mizrahi’s approach was incredibly personal. That’s what I adored. There were wonderful oversized coats, extra-long pants in nutmeg jersey that recalled slinky track pants, colorful basket-weave sweaters, papa cardigans, cropped pants in friendly old plaids (where have you been, my darling?), and a slim coat dress in a deep forest plaid closed with a narrow belt. So different than what you see elsewhere. The sequined and silver pieces at the end were dazzling, especially the silver draped dress worn by Catherine McNeil over a strapless mesh bodysuit. How to express a 21st century idea of movement and comfort? How to evoke an intelligent mind that loves fashion but doesn’t completely buy into it? How to find a different expression of what you want to be?

The show made my day."

Source: http://runway.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/19/mizrahi-singing-for-his-supper/