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Byline: --Florence Kane
With her new line, seasoned French designer and free spirit Sophie Theallet brings a touch of Parisian light to New York.
Everything in Sophie Theallet's new collection has fine touches, like hand-sewn seams, delicate pleating, elegant draping--the workmanship of a creatrice who's clearly experienced in making special pieces. After attending fashion school in Paris and winning the National Young Designer Award, Theallet worked for Jean Paul Gaultier (alongside Martin Margiela) before joining Azzedine Alaia for ten years. She then left for New York and launched the highly coveted but now defunct French Polynesia--inspired Motu Tane collection with makeup pro Francois Nars.
Because of, or despite, all these influences--and her punk roots (inspired by Vivienne Westwood to become a designer, Theallet calls her eighties personal style Siouxsie and the Banshees)--she has formed a look that's entirely her own. For fall, she's made things like an English tweed dress ...