Designer Bouchra Jarrar claims she doesn’t subscribe to any of haute couture’s myths. Cathy Horyn validates this in her article.
Bouchra Jarrar belongs to the modern couture camp. Her day clothes tend to be masculine-influenced, with long, sleeveless jackets and Perfectos with black trousers, while she returns again and again to sparingly cut dresses in silk. The refinement showed this season in dresses that beautifully combined blush pink, ivory and beige, and skimmed over the body. What perhaps isn’t obvious is the texture of her original fabrics, like a heavy silk woven from multiple shades of cream and ivory for her jackets. A black-and-white silk weave, used for sharp jackets, suggests an industrial material. Her clothes demand that you look close — at the amount of asymmetry in her designs, at the careful way she sets a zipper, so that the silver teeth become the merest line of decoration.
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Ms. Jarrar is not into couture’s myths, but she does everything on a high level. Tucked into the front of a Perfecto, raised just enough to set it apart from the fabric, is a rounded swath of black Lesage embroidery. The designer is gradually finding bread-and-butter success with her ready-to-wear. Her line is sold at Louis Boston, Bergdorf Goodman and Capitol in Charlotte, N.C.
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