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IMAGINE IF NEW YORK City's designer had a little party.
There's Michael Kors, gin and tonic in hand, jovial grin on his face,greeting people by the door; over in the comer Tommy Hilfiger, Ralph Lauren, Calv Klein, and Donna Karen are regaling Derel Lam, Richard Chai, and Phillip Lim withstories of the Good Old Days while Diane von Furstenburg listens in, nodding her approval.
Marc Jacobs is at the back chatting with Betsey Johnson, each trying to decide whose skirt is best, while Alexander Wang, of course, is nowhere to be seen; he will wake up in a few hours,and head straight to the after-party.
But who'that handsome guy on his own at the bar, caressing a single malt and contemplating the post-structuraiist exhibi he saw at the Met earlier? Everybody,meet Chadwick Bell.
  Bell debuted his first collection during New York Fashion Week in fall'08, after officially starting his label a year earlier with business partner Vanessa Webster, a childhood friend from San Diego, where he had what he calls a "humble upbringing louis vuitton replica bags Dennis the Menace-style suburbia." Eversince, he's been turning out sophisticated,elegant collections, which are currently available only at Bergdorf Goodman in New York City.
This might be one reason why you haven't heard of him.
Another might be because you can't afford ermine shrugs or $6,500 leather coats.
But whether or not you endorse his preoccupation with animal skins ("I use rt purposefully, never for opulence, he claims), there's something oddly intriguing about Bell's clothes.
This is a guy who not only knows how to cut a perfect silhouette, but-unlike too many of his contemporaries-appreciates the importance of fine craftsmanship.
Take a closer look at that leather coat.
It's piecec together with an almost sculptural attentic to detail, and it's astonishingly heavy-like armor.
And you can rest assured no one e is going to be wearing it to Ratmansky's latest premiere at Lincoln Center.
When I visit his studio one bright summer momin and ask how many he expects to sell, he grins and says, "Two, at the most
  Bell's father is a Louis Vuitton Keepall 55 as was his grandfather and great-grandfather, but as grew older he found himself drawn more} the canvas than the lathe.
I mimicked a k of Erte paintings when I was young." he says over an espresso in a coffee shop of Union Square.
I had this idea of fantasy.I panted these women in this really fantastical clothing that could never really exist.
Then I wondered, How would I actually make the? How would I make this come to life?"
  Like Ertc, the Russian artist who illustrated more than 240 covers for Harper's Bazaar in the '20s, Bell's designs are meticulous and precise, though more toned down than Erte's Moulin Rouge-like flights of fancy (because, after al, people do have to actually wear his clothes).
But it's when he lets his imagination loose a bit that Bell is most successful: While his belted Donegal tweed jacket is on-trend (Dior didn't do a bad job with the fabric this season, either) and impeccably made, if not exactly exhilarating, a black cape dress (in an Louis Vuitton Suhali Leather and wool combination), is mesmerizing, especially in motion: See it on Wynne Bennett, keyboardist for Twin Shadow, who regularly wears Bell's clothes in concert.
His command of structureddresses is more than matched by his dexterity with his signature piece, a diaphanous caftan, of which he makes adifferent incarnation every season.
  And while Bell's core clientele definitely lives on the Upper East Side and enjoys a nice charity ball, he insists they do sometimes venture to Brooklyn for oysters ("Ill take them there and now they won't go anywhere else") and that a younger crowd is showing increasingly more interest in his work.
"I like to compare it to Yves Saint Laurent: he says.
"He brought some women to a level of coolness that they never in their lives would have achieved if he hadn't invented ready-to-wear" Brazen words, certainly, and there are more; "A criticism of the [fashion] industry is that it's very snotty," he says.
"But we have the abiliry to change culture.
We have the ability to create a movement."



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