"Baby Love" show - Kahri Spring 2009

Pouring rain does not usually put you in the mood to venture out into the streets for a fashion show, but a lover of all things fashion will make sacrifices, even if it means you arrive at the venue sopping wet from head to toe. The Kahri show was dry and indoors thankfully, but by no means a big budget production and was disappointingly short and long awaited for. The peppy music of the Shangri-La's and a few guests bopping in their seats softened the blow of the hour and ten minute wait it took for the show to start. 

It was a casual setting in the small studio, people were still putting up big pink and gold dots up onto a black fabric curtain and helping themselves to purple and pink frosted miniature cupcakes and punch. The whole production seemed very much like a high school art exhibition, not at all what one would expect from a designer whose work has been seen on celebrities like Fergie (who has worn the designs, according to Kahri's website). 

The show consisted of 12 looks, also perplexing, considering the extra long, dramatic wait to present the line. The outfits mainly ranged between pops of white, pink, blue, or purple among black. Exposed zippers and gold and silver hardware dotted the clothing giving it a hardcore chick look to the standard silhouettes like nipped in waists and bubble skirt hems. The models strutted down a checkerboard runway holding black and white signage, pointing out the name of the outfit. The "Leader of the Pack" jacket was a black satin cropped sleeve with exposed zippers running down a princess seam. The extended tab in the front with snap button closures was a nice "motorcycle chic" touch to the ensemble. Kahri showed looks for harder edged perspectives, but also a softer, more feminine, bloussoned waist and sleeve look. 

Albeit that KahriAnne Kerr is a young designer and has a long time to settle into her aesthetic, her show was fairly comme ci -comme ça and "too little too late". In any case, fashion is perspective, so props to KahriAnne for making it this far from Tripoli, Iowa to show during New York City's prestigious fashion week. Cheers!