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panting; Katayone Adeli is back, and we'll all look a little chicer for it.
Byline: Sally Singer
In the past decade, two pants above all have made our backsides look shapely and our legs longer: the Seven jean and the Katayone Adeli low-rise flat-front trouser with forward-leaning side seams. If trousers are capable of being legendary, these two are the Heloise and Abelard of the millennial closet-particularly as, in 2003, Katayone Adeli, the enigmatic and beautiful designer, shuttered her business and disappeared from the fashion scene.
Imagine, then, the excitement that is greeting the news that Adeli and Seven have joined forces under the rubric K.A.7 and your butt can once again have those Katayone curves. And so can the rest of you: K.A.7 also has torso-narrowing knits, shoulder-shrinking and arm-slimming jackets with echoes of a Victorian schoolboy, and wafty, nymphy dresses that Kate Moss could surely flail around in on the Isle of Wight.
"Everything I am making right now is playful and effortless," Adeli says in her Melrose Avenue office. "That's what is fun about doing a sportswear line." It transpires that the 41-year-old designer has spent the last three years putting up her feet at her homes-one on Los Angeles's Westside, the place in which she spent her teenage years and early working life; the ...
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- Magazine article from: WWD February 9, 2000 700+ words
...didn't live up to the inspirational film's title. Katayone Adeli: While many designers clamor to hit the runway, others are a bit show-shy. That's the case with Katayone Adeli, who has elected to present her cool clothes in a comfortable...
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- Magazine article from: WWD February 15, 2002 700+ words
...that's oh-so-alt, he wants to build his profile among New York's fashion set. But that doesn't mean he arrived for his...compatriots, wants to move on to a bigger stage. So he showed in New York for the first time this season. In London, where he's been...
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- Magazine article from: WWD April 18, 2003 700+ words
...Byline: Eric Wilson NEW YORK - If there's one message that Katayone Adeli would like to deliver...opened the line in New York after designing...stores like Barneys New York, Ron Herman and...line called 2 by Katayone Adeli, or 2 Kat, that...
- Katayone Adeli Shuttering House.
- Magazine article from: WWD Wilson, Eric April 17, 2003 700+ words
...Byline: Eric Wilson NEW YORK - Katayone Adeli is shutting down...retailers like Barneys New York and Fred Segal, building...become a signature of New York's downtown designer...secondary brand called 2 by Katayone Adeli to cater to more customers...
- Katayone Adeli.
- Magazine article from: W Socha, Miles June 1, 2000 700+ words
Katayone Adeli is dividing to conquer. The New York designer is launching two new lower-priced lines for fall--2 by Katayone Adeli and 2 Jeans by Katayone Adeli--both reflecting her hip, downtown sensibility...
- TWO FOR THE ROAD.(Katayone Adeli)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: WWD April 6, 2000 700+ words
NEW YORK -- Katayone Adeli is dividing to conquer. With her signature...priced lines for fall: A diffusion line, 2 by Katayone Adeli, and a denim collection, 2 Jeans by Katayone Adeli. Here, from the latter, a cotton football...
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- Magazine article from: WWD July 18, 2000 700+ words
NEW YORK -- Sean Barron, who launched the Katayone Adeli fashion firm in 1996 with the...foot flagship on Bond Street in New York and launched secondary and jeans...Saks Fifth Avenue and Barneys New York. Barron also will be selling...