Marchesa
Designers: Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig

• “A bit too costumey perhaps. But they do design with the red carpet in mind, which is about as costumey as it gets.” {All The Rage/Los Angeles Times}
• “Maybe I will lose the smock in favor of a Marchesa gown, where the fringe is so shiny and bouncy it might have been hacked off a thousand My Little Ponies’ tails.” {The Cut/New York Magazine}
• “Elaborately decadent.” {Daily Front Row}
• “Marchesa may have offered a hint at what Blake Lively’s wedding dress looked like.” {The Daily Mail}
• “This collection was pretty over-the-top, even for Marchesa. Craig and Chapman’s approach to design has pretty much always been, Why use a key when ten sticks of dynamite will open the door just fine? And here they had a whole new vocabulary of embellishment to play with–elaborate threadwork, sari draping, fringe. Lots of fringe.” {Style.com}
• “A collision of the rarified and time-honored beading and embroidery skills of India, not to mention its wildly vivid color palette (chartreuse, garnet, fuchsia, coral, and, of course, pink) with the groovy countercultural swing of I-just-want-to-find-myself sixties London.” {Vogue.com}
• “It’s a hard fact to escape, that shows err on the side of slouchy downtown cool or refined, sophisticated polish. But Marchesa, however, is neither. In many ways it not only doesn’t belong in New York (in the physical sense), it doesn’t even belong on this earth–it’s a woman’s dreams made real, the fairytale princess who’s jumped from page to reality, and for that the label is a singular and wonderful thing.” {Vogue.com UK}
• “They approached India so literally–draped dresses with elaborate surface adornments, colorful saris, midriff-exposing ghagra choli–one almost expected an elephant to come down the runway or the models to break into a Bollywood dance number for the finale.” {WWD}