When you ask a designer for his or her inspiration for a collection, you can’t predict the answer. Some are vague or brief. Others, like Raul Melgoza, the creative director at Luca Luca, are much more specific.
“The inspiration was a woman traveling through the woods. I envisioned her first coming in with a horse,” he said backstage afterwards, beginning a nearly scene-by-scene storyboard description of his Fall 2011 collection. “A little bit of the riding inspiration, the utility,” he said. “This idea of kind of a masculine feminine.”
Mr. Melgoza began the show with heavy layers, a camel colored trench coat and olive green leather pants, followed by a gray twill skirt and then a fox fur jacket.
The weight of the fabrics eased as the woman in Mr. Melgoza’s story “jumps off her horse and she starts to run through the woods. She starts to take off the layers and we start to see a lot of lace, a lot of sheers.” An olive silk dress with black lace and later a fuchsia jersey dress lightened the collection, as did an orange ensemble made of “lightweight suede,” according to the show notes. A cocktail shift with a beaded overlay was especially ladylike. (Although the dress that preceded it, which was covered in tufts of silver fox fur, suggested perhaps the woman got into a tussle with an animal whilst running.)
Mr. Melgoza’s story ended when the woman leaves the woods and heads for “the fabulous party,” – to which she presumably wears one of a trio of gowns that closed the show, including a high-necked, flowing fuchsia print dress and a black cowl neck dress with embellished shoulders.
The fairytale journey is the response to what Mr. Melgoza sees as a return to luxury. “The recession is turning and I think people are tired of just fast fashion,” Mr. Melgoza said. “They want special pieces, they want special colors, special finishes…pieces that can’t be knocked off left and right by the mass producers.”
“The inspiration was a woman traveling through the woods. I envisioned her first coming in with a horse,” he said backstage afterwards, beginning a nearly scene-by-scene storyboard description of his Fall 2011 collection. “A little bit of the riding inspiration, the utility,” he said. “This idea of kind of a masculine feminine.”
Mr. Melgoza began the show with heavy layers, a camel colored trench coat and olive green leather pants, followed by a gray twill skirt and then a fox fur jacket.
The weight of the fabrics eased as the woman in Mr. Melgoza’s story “jumps off her horse and she starts to run through the woods. She starts to take off the layers and we start to see a lot of lace, a lot of sheers.” An olive silk dress with black lace and later a fuchsia jersey dress lightened the collection, as did an orange ensemble made of “lightweight suede,” according to the show notes. A cocktail shift with a beaded overlay was especially ladylike. (Although the dress that preceded it, which was covered in tufts of silver fox fur, suggested perhaps the woman got into a tussle with an animal whilst running.)Mr. Melgoza’s story ended when the woman leaves the woods and heads for “the fabulous party,” – to which she presumably wears one of a trio of gowns that closed the show, including a high-necked, flowing fuchsia print dress and a black cowl neck dress with embellished shoulders.
The fairytale journey is the response to what Mr. Melgoza sees as a return to luxury. “The recession is turning and I think people are tired of just fast fashion,” Mr. Melgoza said. “They want special pieces, they want special colors, special finishes…pieces that can’t be knocked off left and right by the mass producers.”
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