L.A. Fashion Week Spring '07: Sue Wong
Los Angeles designer Sue Wong took everyone on an around-the-world trip with her dresses. The looks spanned the globe, going from the fiery fashions of Latin America to the sultry silhouettes of Hollywood.
In her Spring/Summer 2007 collection, which showed Oct. 15 at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Smashbox Studios in Culver City, Calif.,Wong highlighted her daytime dresses instead of concentrating exclusively on her elegant eveningwear.
“I threw in the more naiuml;ve and innocent and sweet, feminine looks rather than the classical siren, seductress type of things,” said Wong, who is well known for over-the-top beaded dresses that evoke the “Great Gatsby” era of wealth and fame.
The show started out with all-white cotton dresses heavily embroidered with touches of lace and ruffled skirts with a Dutch-girl feel. Fancier embroidered slip dresses in airy colors such as celery green and antique peach and blue followed. A genre called “Country Cousins” was a departure for Wong, who fashioned colorfully embroidered linen and cotton into a Western motif. Latin-inspired dresses embraced bright oranges and turquoises for a south-of-the-border look before the Chinese-born designer ventured back into ornate silk evening dresses with jeweled midriffs, heavy beading and long silhouettes. —Deborah Belgum
