CNC Costume National Fall 2010 Fashion Show Full Video

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CNC Costume National is the label where hems must be high and leather isn’t so much an option as a staple. Sure, the hems were still up around the hip-bone area, but the clothes themselves came in soft grays and browns, wool and mohair—a cleansing effect after last season’s leather short shorts. There were some very good trouser suits that achieved Costume’s necessary sexy quotient, thanks to the excellent fit. The cleverly morphed thicker materials of the short dresses—that wool and mohair—almost seemed designed to distract the eye from the models’ upper thighs, although perhaps that only works on fashion editors as opposed to, say, footballers.

Quite how any of this fit in with Capasa’s surprising source of inspiration, Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, a nineteenth-century book about self-imposed isolation and self-discovery, is anyone’s guess. Maybe it just suggests that Capasa is beginning to resist the Italian nightclub scene, staying home instead with a good book and a cup of cocoa. Well, a good book and a glass of Champagne.

 

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