I loved Irina's concept of it being designed for the modern day New York woman that is battling with the day-to-day city challenges - a strong woman; accompanied by head shields. The details and the shed load of work that had gone into her collection was immense.... knitwear, outerwear, accessories, pleating... just lush! It looked like a collection that would've easily passed off as a LFW triumph. Too much black? Pah - whatever.
Below was one of my favourite looks:
The whole look auctioned for $510 - all in all not that bad if you consider every piece is thrown in. I would wear the whole outfit head to toe.The shredded bottoms were fantastic:
I was hoping to find some pieces to buy on http://irinashabayeva.com/but no such luck. What I found were flower/butterfly printed jersey mini dresses. Really not the sophisticated finish that I was hoping for. Her holiday '09 and spring '09 collection looked much stronger than the spring '10. With my favourites from the holiday '09 collection being two dresses:
Even the campaign images from the holiday '09 collection is stronger than the spring '10 - perhaps she was too busy with the project runway show hence it flailing.
(Holiday '09 campaign image)
