I was very excited about Oslo Fashion Week and I saw several designer's collections. Here are some photos I took at Pia Haraldsen for Agape.
Norway's fashion elite?
Pia Haraldsen with one the model wearing a wedding dress.
All photos by ReginePandora.
I'd love to hear your reactions to her collection. For those of you not familiar with her, this is her first collection and she designed it for the norwegian fashion house Agape. It was mostly a dress collection and she has no experience as a designer before. She is a familiar face among the norwegian celebrities, still nobody really know why she is "famous". Well, she is related to the norwegian queen, and started her public career in 2001 after dating the hereditary grand duke of Luxembourg - in which she met in a royal wedding. After this she's had several jobs as a TV hostess and she's been a columnist for a norwegian newspaper, VG and the fashion magazine, Cosmpolitan.
When it comes to her dress collection at OFW the audience had mixed reactions. Personally it gave me flashbacks to the 90s with all the fabrics in velvet, the diamonds and the long, slim dresses with a flared bottom. She confessed to the press that she was done with the sketches for her entire collection within a week. I would have recommended her to use more time and release her collection for the next OFW instead. She'd have more time working on the designs and hopefully her collection would have been better received by the audience.
After the viewing the designer was happy, despite all the critiques, and she spoke warmly about the velvet fabric making it's comeback this autumn. I don't think this will be a hit the upcoming season, and personally I did not like her design. But the only thing I believe she scored on was that long dresses is in the wind right now - or more correctly - the maxi dresses are, these dresses in velvet fabrics and with a flared bottom, is not. "One shoulder" dresses has also been seen in fashion lately, but I don't believe it will stay for long. Do you?
xx,
3 kommentarer:
Jeg synes det er helt grusomt at Pia skulle få lov til å vise designene sine på ofw, når hun ikke har NOEN whatsoever erfaring som designer! Bare fordi hun er kjendis og har penger. Helt feil!
Super fine bilder forresten!:D
Hehe, du deler den meningen med veldig mange andre. Jeg synes ikke noe om kolleksjonen, men jeg er av den mening at alle - enten de har utdannelse innen mote eller ikke - skal få lov til å prøve seg på Oslo Fashion Week. Det er mange designere som har gjort det bra slik, men jeg forstår frustrasjonen og poengene dine.
Hyggelig at du liker bildene! :)
Jeg må si meg enig med deg, Regine .... Har man talent, så har man det .... Hjelper ikke hvor mye utdannelse du har, hvis du ikke har talent ....
Må motvillig innrømme at Haraldsen sin kolleksjon var utrolig mye sprekere enn Jarebrink sin .... Bare synd at de bruker modeller som ikke fyller ut klærne, de kunne vært virkelig sexy med litt former inni .... :)
Helena
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