btw. SALLY LAPOINTE
Snapshot of Sally Lapoint's F17 collection and site: sallylapointe.com
I may be all the more seduced by these sexy luxe black looks because I just finished seeing "Mademoiselle C.", a film documenting the travails of the enigmatic Carine Roitfeld as she launches CR Fashion Book. But when I came across Sally Lapointe recently, I was immediately mesmerized. The designer understands how to use black for its subtlety and it's strength and builds with intricate details and a strong feminine hand.
“Intimacy was the word we kept using. We wanted to invoke this voyeuristic allure that draws people in — that feeling where you know you shouldn’t be looking but you can’t quite look away.”
Lapointe's Pre-Fall and Fall collections for 2017 were intimidatingly glamorous and though there were piles of embellishments on embellishments, somehow she managed each look to appear fresh, modern, and never overdone. For Fall 2017, she launched her collection sans-runway and had each look donned by a moving model projected on eight-foot-tall high-def video screens. La Pointe has a vision for the future and it's unapologetically powerful, in-your-face, and female. I loved it.
