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Russell Sage Occasionally, a fashion show has an affect on its audience which is visible. Russell Sage's incredible presentation of 8 outfits inspired by the interior of Thomas and Jane Carlyle's home in Chelsea, was an opportunity to escape the photographers' flash bulbs and enter a different space entirely. Russell has been inspired by visits to the house which is owned and maintained by the National Trust. He has created outfits featuring antique fabrics which are also eerily modern. As visitors wandered around the house, across creaking floorboards in rooms kept very much as they would have been in Carlyle's day, they encountered ladies dressed in Sage's designs. The models (who are all dancers by profession) are just going about their everyday Victorian lady business - playing cards, reading books, sewing. One dress is based on an antique linen tablecloth. There is a draped skirt hand-embroidered with a wallpaper detail from the study, a dressing gown jacket with patchwork antique fabric and an embroidered bench based on the one in Carlyle's garden. The craftmanship and attention to detail is stunning and what made the presentation work so well was being able to experience the outfits in the environment which inspired them. |
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