New York Fashion Week Spring '02: Jared Gold
There are things about Jared Gold that some may not have known until now. Like the fact that he is a trained pianist, and also, that it runs in the family. Gold, along with his mother, performed a live piano duet in place of obligatory runway music during the showing of his Spring 2002 collection at the Gramercy Park Hotel on Sept. 9.
Soft and ephemeral is how Gold describes his collection this season, “but at the same time, kind of dark and a little wrong—but so faint you can't really tell.”
That seems to sum up his trademark style, which in a nutshell, is extremely poetic and over-the-top.
For Spring, Gold went girly, showing a lighter side. He offered colors including calyx (a spearmint green), persimmon, parchment, Cornell blue and peacock on simplified silhouettes long acetate or appliqueacute;d mid-length skirts with cutesie tops and t-shirts, slim trousers with a candy-stripe shirting, 3/4-sleeve fitted jackets and the finishing accessory, a funky, short-brimmed, tall toque hat.
Pieces seemed more wearable without sacrificing Gold’s theatrical edge, and there were those familiar quirky screened images that appeared throughout the collection: a row of black chairs along a hem, glittery white forks across the front of a skirt, gold foil circles on tops, and swirly cursive designs referred to as “ruling pen.” —Joselle Yokogawa
