One of my favorite new (new to me, anyway!) designers from
this past NYFW was K. Nicole Couture. It’s a design duo consisting of
Pennsylvania natives Kera Anderson and Nicole Styer, who have “set out to
create a line that offers a mixture of ready-to-wear and couture pieces, with
its tasteful selections of Italian prints and other luxury textiles.” The
experienced fashion innovators cit “16th century crown molding,
costume wear and royal charades” as inspiration. That aesthetic was the driving
force of the FW14 collection – maybe that’s why I fell so hard for it, as a
not-so-closeted European history freak. The amazing thing was that the line had
all these costume elements and yet would be really wearable – it was the most
modern, versatile and chic that such regal, opulent clothing could possibly be.
As each new ensemble came down the runway, I kept thinking “that’s exactly what Ann Boleyn or Catherine
Medici would wear if we were having dinner in DUMBO.” See for yourself:
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