San Francisco Fashion
Week 2005
 Couture
Designers Epitomize City Style
©2005 Metrofashion.com- Colleen Quen shows a strong 2005/ 2006 line
At the second annual San
Francisco Fashion Week™ 2005, French trained couterier Colleen
Quen perfectly encapsulates the city's fashion style. During her "Treasures
Within" show, the fashion audience cheer with applause as models
grace the runway clad in finely tailored evening gowns.
Two gowns titled "Sapphire
Elegance" and "Blue Opal Energy" played the stage in sapphire blue French
lace and angora with brown tulle trimming. An Empire evening ballgown,
"Rhinestone Creativity", showcases Quen's expert couture
tailoring with a sleek black top and reams of white
tulle skirting, festooned with fabric designer's Jocelyn Hines' black
and red appliques, punctuated at the waist with a smart red stain ribbon.
To achieve the precise custom fit that her couture clients like Tyra Banks,
Paris Hilton, and Gina Davis demand, Colleen Quen creates a moulage, or
"second skin" of the client's body from 36 measurements. A native of the
Bay Area, her inspiration for this year's San Francisco fashion show is
world
travel and a continuing fascination with flowers' natural forms and
movements.
The highlights of this year's Fashion Week are from the city's premiere
couture designers, particularly Quen and Christina Hurvis. The week sparked
with emerging talent such as women's wear line His by Her and local heavyweights
like Levi's, however, even stars from "America's
Next Top Model", walking for the emerging designers / local fashion
university graduates show.
Highlights Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom walks the runway in the "Touch
Benefit" charity fashion show during SF Fashion Week, supports underserved
women and children. Photography ©Metrofashion. San Francisco Fashion
Week™ Mystery Girl Productions. |
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