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FASHION NEWS |
Doing Designer, When Everyone's a Designer
Over the course of the past year, American fashion has seen an explosion of high-low
fashion collaborations, with a multitude of pairings between designers and mass
merchants such as Target, Uniqlo and Gap.
It's given designers like Rodarte – their couture dresses can cost thousands, whereas
their white shirtdress for Gap cost a mere $88 - a chance to reach a wider audience.
Kate and Laura Mulleavy, the California-based sisters behind Rodarte, were up for
the Swarovski womenswear award for emerging talent at this year's CFDA awards. The
duo were runners-up for the 2006 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund award along with Thakoon
and Fund winner Doo.Ri, who were also a part of Gap's new initiative, Gap Design
Editions. "If you think of really great moments in fashion, you have Levi's and
t-shirts, you have a James Dean - people who really transformed the idea of a casual
wardrobe into something that really means a lot to a lot of people," said Kate Mulleavy
as she walked into the New York Public Library on Monday night for the CFDA awards
with her sister Laura.
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