“I’m having a gold moment,” L’Wren declared at a fitting a couple of weeks ago. She’d been researching the relationship between the Austrian Secessionist artist Gustav Klimt and Adele Bloch-Bauer, whose portrait he painted. “He kept applying more and more gold because he didn’t want to finish the painting. She was married. I think people figured out what was going on in the end!"
It’s typical of L’Wren that there’s something about the relationship between women and men sewn into her clothes—transgressive or not. She designs for girls in good shape, and who want to show it to their advantage—but without actually putting it on a plate. They come back to her time and again for her “headmistress dress”—a strict yet curvaceous long-sleeved pencil-skirted affair (which this season comes in emerald green with gold embroidery at the neck)—and the deceptively prim silhouettes she will typically outline with contrasting piping which can’t help but draw an observer’s eye up and down and around a woman’s body. L’Wren knows this business—not to mention the flirty attractions of a small-waisted coatdress with a swishy skirt and a slinky evening column—inside out. They all fit to perfection—she’s obsessive about that: no lumps or wrinkles are permitted in L’Wren’s world." - vogue.com
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