While it’s been a dominant trend this fall season, ladylike dressing means something different at Weinsanto — and in more ways than one.
Victor Weinsanto titled his collection “Lady Weinsanto” after his six-month-old puppy, a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, and also drew inspiration from the colorful ladies in his life, most of them firmly in touch with their inner vamp.
The designer applied his fetish corset lacing to the front of the tight LBD that opened the show, and to the back of the stiff, floor-length white leather bridal column that closed the display, staged in the bunker-like disco Bisou.
Club kids will go for his killer black jeans laced coarsely on the outseams, or his cool, corset-waist bomber jackets.
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The Ladies Who Lunch at Dimes Square or on Rue Oberkampf may show up in a long, vivid purple overcoat, or a lime-green shirtdress with an asymmetrical hem.
Excepting a few bursts of expressive color, including Barbie pink for a jersey dress, the show had a melancholy mood, black lace mourning veils finishing off some of the many all-black outfits.
One model in a stiff, black leather lampshade skirt lifted the mood by unzipping a compartment on the hem, extracting her cell phone and using it as a mirror to check out her “lewk.” It was fierce.
Speaking of fierce — don’t call Weinsanto’s dog by the abbreviated Lady “unless you’re friends with her,” the designer warned with a yelp of laughter. “She’s really shy. She hates people actually.”