{"id":11246,"date":"2011-04-27T11:58:13","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T15:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/modacycle.com\/?p=11246"},"modified":"2011-08-01T12:24:23","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T16:24:23","slug":"juan-carlos-obando-fall-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/2011\/04\/27\/juan-carlos-obando-fall-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Juan Carlos Obando – Fall 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

story by Kari Jensen
\nphotos by Charles Beckwith<\/p>\n

A long bench along one side of an ominous warehouse faced the emptiness. A row of lights, spaced wide overhead, cutting through the gloom, punctuated by thunderous drum calls. Models passed one-by-one walking first near the bench and then circling into the murk, repeating this pattern again and again during Juan Carlos Obando<\/a>\u2019s two-hour Fall 2011 presentation.<\/p>\n

The dark setting directly contrasted with Obando\u2019s suits, dresses, and gowns; their lightweight fabrics and body-revealing cuts more commonly seen in spring and summer. As one model walked, her floor-length white caftan fluttered like a sail in the breeze. Another model appeared ready to dance flamenco in a pale pink sleeveless below-knee dress with ruffle-bottomed skirt, trimmed with black lace triangles at its waist\u2019s sides and worn with above-elbow black gloves. Whether it be a black, collarless suit with tight, straight skirt, appliqu\u00e9d with gold; another simple black suit with a pleated front, peplum jacket; or a white halter evening gown, Obando\u2019s ensembles fit each model impeccably, reflective of his start disassembling vintage clothes and piecing them back together. The Columbia-born designer showed his first collection in New York in 2008. Past collections have been feminine with an edge: new variations of straight and trumpet skirts; flounced jackets; vertical ruffled bodice, fitted waist dresses; and gowns with short trains. Obando said this time around his hues reflected nostalgia. \u201cVictorian dresses have captivated me for a very long time.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The dark setting directly contrasted with Obando\u2019s suits, dresses, and gowns; their lightweight fabrics and body-revealing cuts more commonly seen in spring and summer. As one model walked, her floor-length white caftan fluttered like a sail in the breeze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,733],"tags":[641,343,100],"class_list":["post-11246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-shows-and-events","tag-fall-2011","tag-juan-carlos-obando","tag-new-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}