• Peter Som
• New York Fashion Week Fall 2012

Peter Som’s designs strutted down the runway at Milk Studios this morning all bundled up in luxurious furs, slinked into delicate wintery white dresses and poured themselves into metallic slim pants. The subtly of this retro flashback is just enough of a hint of what Som imagined up as the modern 1930’s woman. Som evokes the stylings of icons Marlene Dietrich and Katherine Hepburn and he manages to capture their confidence and maturity, not to mention their unflinching ability to mix the masculine and the feminine. Everything seems to be effortlessly balanced; if the pants are slouched and relaxed then the top fits slimmer and vice versa. I love when designers do this because I feel as though I can appreciate each individual piece much better than when baggier items are paired together because it tends to distract (me at least haha).

The collection is rounded up with dramatic puffy shoulders, sheer elegant details, bold textures, ladylike satin cocktail dresses with sexy slits all expertly tailored. “Effortless elegance and refined sexiness” is how Peter Som describes his general aesthetic and as another season blows by he has managed to keep that vision in tact once again.  

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