Vintage in Pills STELLA MCCARTNEY Spring 2004 - Fashion Channel

Stella McCartney’s Spring 2004 collection was a confident and assured statement from the designer. She ditched the tricky corsetry, bland biscuit shades, and reworked vintage pieces of her previous collections in favor of strong colors like aqua, spearmint, jade, lemon, and pink. She also banished references to iconic designers’ past hits, relying on her own keen sense of what makes clothes graceful and cool. The collection featured dresses suspended by superfine straps and filmy skirts of petal-like chiffon layers, as well as sharp, sexy pants that came with milky-colored chiffon tops hung from latex straps. McCartney also licked the ballet trend that was pirouetting its way through Paris at the time, with second-skin jerseys and knitted rib warmers over floaty minis. The accessories were also great, with flesh-toned, transparent-strapped shoes and metal-trimmed bags embellished with enamel stones. The delicate eveningwear, embroidered and smocked with gold thread, was sure to have McCa