SALLY LAPOINTE | NEW YORK FASHION WEEK | SPRING/SUMMER 2015 | VOGUE ESPANA

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SALLY LAPOINTE’S POWERFULLY FEMININE COLLECTIONS ARE KNOWN FOR LINEAR SILHOUETTES AND PRECISE TAILORING, BRINGING A FRESH POINT OF VIEW TO WOMEN’S FASHION. LAPOINTE’S DISTINCTIVE SENSIBILITY CONVEYS A BOLD SENSE
OF CONFIDENCE AND A QUIET ALLURE.

DESIGNED AND PRODUCED IN NEW YORK CITY, SALLY LAPOINTE IS A DESIGNER COLLECTION OFFERING INTRICATELY CUSTOMIZED FABRICS AND PRINTS IN PRECISE CONSTRUCTIONS AND MINIMAL COLOR PALETTES, GIVING THE WEARER A SENSE OF EASE IN THE GARMENTS. THE SALLY LAPOINTE WOMAN IS A SOPHISTICATE WITH DARK INCLINATIONS.

BORN IN MASSACHUSETTS, SALLY LAPOINTE BEGAN HER EDUCATION IN FINE ARTS AT AN EARLY AGE. ATTRACTED TO PAINTING AND SCULPTURE FOR THEIR ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE EMOTIONS THROUGH COLOR AND TEXTURE, LAPOINTE
WAS FASCINATED WITH CREATING OBJECTS THAT BOTH EXPLORED PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND ELICITED A VISCERAL RESPONSE FROM OTHERS.

LAPOINTE GRADUATED WITH A BFA IN APPAREL DESIGN FROM THE RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN IN 2006. TEAMING UP WITH FELLOW RISD GRADUATE SARAH ADELSON, IN 2010 THEY MOVED NEW YORK CITY AND FOUNDED
THE EPONYMOUS COLLECTION.

SALLY LAPOINTE COLLECTIONS CONTINUE TO RECEIVE ACCOLADES FROM PRESS, CELEBRITIES AND RETAILERS. IN 2013, LAPOINTE WAS NAMED ONE OF FORBES’ 30 UNDER 30 IN ART + DESIGN, AND PROFILED IN PUBLICATIONS SUCH AS HARPER’S BAZAAR AND THE NEW YORK TIMES. HER COLLECTIONS HAVE BEEN WORN BY CELEBRITIES SUCH AS
EMILY BLUNT, KATY PERRY, RITA ORA, LADY GAGA, CIARA AND KIM KARDASHIAN.

SALLY LAPOINTE COLLECTIONS ARE AVAILABLE AT LUXURY RETAILERS INCLUDING BERGDORF GOODMAN IN NEW YORK, AND SPECIALTY BOUTIQUES THROUGHOUT THE US, CANADA, RUSSIA, CHINA AND THE MIDDLE EAST.

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Key Hair: Yannick D'IS. Hair: Kien Hoang, Louis Orozco for Oribe Hair Care, Dan Nguyen | Lure Salon, Yanin Colmenero | Umbrella Salon, Roz Corpuz | Umbrella Salon. Stylist: Natasha Royt. Make-up: Kabuki by MAC. Special Thanks to Talia Thomas of Oribe Hair Care.

VFILES | ZDDZ | RTW SPRING/SUMMER 2015 | STYLE.COM

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ZDDZ BY DASHA SELYANOVA

By Lee Carter for Style.com

There's something about a group show that brings out a festive spirit. At VFiles tonight—following a feel-good video message about togetherness from top model Carolyn Murphy—four relatively unknown men's and women's designers from around the world each presented a mini-collection to encouraging hoots and hollers from the audience. The receptive crowd included plenty of colorful downtown stars and Tumblr sensations, as well as enough bold-faced mentors—most notably, Calvin Klein's men's creative director Italo Zucchelli, who was all smiles—to keep the fresh-faced young things giddy with excitement well into the wee hours. Or, however late the VFiles x Def Jam DJ Championship, which doubled as the after-party, raged on. 

The democratic process of allowing designers anywhere to upload pictures and videos of their work to VFiles naturally favors extremes in shapes, colors, and concepts. The first and most promising of the group, Tigran Avestiyan, exhibited these in spades. The graduate of Central Saint Martins in London, who returned to his native Russia to found his label, based his collection on five actual bottles of name-brand fragrances he bought from duty-free stores in airports and fused them together into one unwieldy bottle that his models carried in clear plastic bags. They also wore tunics and shorts with a mishmash of crinkles and flashes of the words "Duty Free"—just enough to suggest cellophane packaging. The designer's message, that of the corruptive, corrosive nature of globalism, came through loud and clear. "It's good to be outside of fashion, seeing it from a distance," he said with a grin backstage, quickly adding, "Not that I wouldn't love to work in New York!" 

Next up was Hye Gin Hamm. Graduating from Parsons earlier this year, she drew inspiration from, she said, "a mix of American and Korean cultures," specifically, American denim and bulky silhouettes evocative of traditional Korean monks. Careful hand-bleaching of each oversized and layered item gave the collection an alluringly timeless, placeless quality. Showings by ZDDZ's Dasha Selyanova, another Russian, and Detto Kazuma of D.TT.K, both of whom produced highly graphic, slightly athletic collections, rounded out the very international showcase. 

Given the excellent IRL platform of VFiles, which is only a year old, it'll be interesting to see how these young hopefuls matriculate through the global fashion system. "It was challenging to choose four designers out of the hundreds who entered," said founder Julie Anne Quay, "but we work closely with our community and mentors [to look] for a point of view, salability, quality, and that's something special."

Key Hair: Kien Hoang | Oribe Hair Care.  Hair: Louis Orozco | Oribe Hair Care, Dan Nguyen | Oribe Hair Care, Coby Alcantar, Tony Caldwell, Jami Symons, Ashley Brecken, Christian Ceja-Compin | Oribe Hair Care, Mandee Hernandez, Kristen Keller, Nathan Nguyen | Umbrella Salon, Yanin Colmenero | Umbrella Salon, Karla Fenton | Umbrella Salon, Ronnie Stam | Oribe Hair Care.  Special Thanks to Talia Thomas of Oribe Hair Care.

Photo: Gianni Pucci / Indigitalimages.Com

VFILES | D.TT.K | RTW SPRING/SUMMER 2015 | STYLE.COM

Webster Hall
in

DETTO KAZUMA OF D.TT.K

By Lee Carter for Style.com

There's something about a group show that brings out a festive spirit. At VFiles tonight—following a feel-good video message about togetherness from top model Carolyn Murphy—four relatively unknown men's and women's designers from around the world each presented a mini-collection to encouraging hoots and hollers from the audience. The receptive crowd included plenty of colorful downtown stars and Tumblr sensations, as well as enough bold-faced mentors—most notably, Calvin Klein's men's creative director Italo Zucchelli, who was all smiles—to keep the fresh-faced young things giddy with excitement well into the wee hours. Or, however late the VFiles x Def Jam DJ Championship, which doubled as the after-party, raged on. 

The democratic process of allowing designers anywhere to upload pictures and videos of their work to VFiles naturally favors extremes in shapes, colors, and concepts. The first and most promising of the group, Tigran Avestiyan, exhibited these in spades. The graduate of Central Saint Martins in London, who returned to his native Russia to found his label, based his collection on five actual bottles of name-brand fragrances he bought from duty-free stores in airports and fused them together into one unwieldy bottle that his models carried in clear plastic bags. They also wore tunics and shorts with a mishmash of crinkles and flashes of the words "Duty Free"—just enough to suggest cellophane packaging. The designer's message, that of the corruptive, corrosive nature of globalism, came through loud and clear. "It's good to be outside of fashion, seeing it from a distance," he said with a grin backstage, quickly adding, "Not that I wouldn't love to work in New York!" 

Next up was Hye Gin Hamm. Graduating from Parsons earlier this year, she drew inspiration from, she said, "a mix of American and Korean cultures," specifically, American denim and bulky silhouettes evocative of traditional Korean monks. Careful hand-bleaching of each oversized and layered item gave the collection an alluringly timeless, placeless quality. Showings by ZDDZ's Dasha Selyanova, another Russian, and Detto Kazuma of D.TT.K, both of whom produced highly graphic, slightly athletic collections, rounded out the very international showcase. 

Given the excellent IRL platform of VFiles, which is only a year old, it'll be interesting to see how these young hopefuls matriculate through the global fashion system. "It was challenging to choose four designers out of the hundreds who entered," said founder Julie Anne Quay, "but we work closely with our community and mentors [to look] for a point of view, salability, quality, and that's something special."

Key Hair: Kien Hoang | Oribe Hair Care.  Hair: Louis Orozco | Oribe Hair Care, Dan Nguyen | Oribe Hair Care, Coby Alcantar, Tony Caldwell, Jami Symons, Ashley Brecken, Christian Ceja-Compin | Oribe Hair Care, Mandee Hernandez, Kristen Keller, Nathan Nguyen | Umbrella Salon, Yanin Colmenero | Umbrella Salon, Karla Fenton | Umbrella Salon, Ronnie Stam | Oribe Hair Care.  Special Thanks to Talia Thomas of Oribe Hair Care.