That was the Supriya Lele woman sorted out with a wardrobe for summer.
For fall, the lookbook season, it was off to talk to the designer where she works.
And there are a lot more simpler things happening.
Which I really love.
Its sort of finding pleasure in simplicitysmall things like color, or just cut.
Upstairs in a ramshackle converted office building is Leles studio.
I started thinking about what I was actually wearing, Lele said.
Every day, Ive been wearing this baseball coat and slim jeans.
And so we started by working into this idea with a really nice kind of leather piece.
It turned out as an over-the-head leather hoodie.
The slim jeans part became fine-gauge leggings.
I wanted to create fabrics that looked wet, almost iridescent.
One dressa white paisley lace, hand-foiled with pearlized paint ever so subtly underlined Leles Indian heritage.
Others in gold, or cobalt blue, looked like photographic gels.
Skimpy, but with fashion substance.
