matthew wiliamson

I usually never love a Spring Collection, but I really liked this one and although Matthew Williamson is a popular designer, I'd personally never been drawn to his work, until now.
While the collection was not a unilateral success, there is a lot to be said of doing well enough to gain a new fan.











(click here for video footage of this Spring 07 collection courtesy of elle.com)


Matthew Williamson is a designer who really shines in his spring collections. When I think of him as a designer the color pink usually comes to mind, and I think he's he only one for me who can make pink seem pretty and cool. Here is what my peeps at style.com had to say on the collection.
NEW YORK, September 13, 2006 – Party clothes are Matthew Williamson's specialty. But last season, after landing the Emilio Pucci gig, he practiced unfamiliar restraint on his own runway in an effort to separate the two labels. Today, the pendulum swung back, way back. Williamson showed a wildly over-the-top collection for a girl on permanent vacation in Ibiza. Colors were psychedelic, prints were loud, and mirrored sequins glinted. The opening look—coral short shorts and a chambray chemise heavily embroidered with wood and plastic beads—had a bit of the relaxed boho vibe he once favored, but from there he went all-out glam with fluoro brights and kaleidoscopic digital prints on smock dresses, sweater vests, and a bathing suit. In the right time and place—i.e. at 4 a.m. on the dance floor at Pacha—some of it could work, the lily pad-print sleeveless minidress, for example. But at 4 o'clock in the afternoon in a West Side ferry terminal quite a few of these pieces looked garish. And there's probably never a right time for the embroidered and studded Mexican peasant top he sent down the runway with floral leggings. – Nicole Phelps style.com


And for perspective, here is a look at some of his Fall 06 highlights.