Antonio Ortega
spring/summer 2006
Staging a wild cabaret sideshow in Montreal to show
off his spring-summer 2006 couture, Antonio Ortega reminded us why he
is the go-to guy for over-the-top couture excess.
Razor-torn body-hugging silk is about as spare as it
gets for women, while an emerald green jungle dress is stitched together
in lines so precise that only Ortega could've done the meticulous hand-work.
The layering is out of this world, and tornadoes of red, black and glittery
gold are contained within both horizontal and vertical lines. There
is enough Victorian fantasy here to open a theme park. If you haven't
thought of wearing a terrycloth jacket over elephant culottes, then
you haven't been spending enough time in Antonio Ortega's dream world.
The human tableau
also included men, prancing in undies and modernized zoot suits, which
if my eyes served me correctly, included Monsieur Ortega himself.
Daniel
Cox
Fashion Editor
Marek Wlazlo
Photographer
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