LABEL still chic at LGFW with Fall/Winter 2011

I've been a fan of LABEL for quite some time, and own many of their pieces. I even sported a mini-dress from their spring line to their fall/winter show yesterday, which went down in the Studio space at Fashion Week.

And LABEL girls didn't let me down. Shawna Robinson and Natalie Sydoruk showed yet another collection of easy, chic, styling-ready basics that fit effortlessly into every girl's wardrobe.

Inspirations included the morning after, the nineties, and rock tees, plus a beautifully shot opening video of a girl getting ready in the morning by throwing LABEL pieces together in her own unique way (which, cleverly, illustrates the brand's core idea of creating pieces that each girl can make their own; that's the beauty of the line--everybody could make a video with these pieces, and each would style them a totally different way).

That nineties minimalism expressed itself in reworked-for-today olive tunics, silk button-ups and shirt-dresses, gray cotton maxi-dresses, draped black silk crop-tops, velvet pants, and slate-blue henleys. Leather also wended its way through the line, whether it was pockets on a cape, paired with cotton to make a new-style varsity jersey, or elbow patches on a t-shirt dress or two. Even fall's favourite sweater style, cableknit, showed up in innovative ways, in the form of hotpants and a skirt.

The grunge simplicity went too far sometimes in pieces like the baggy white long underwear-like maxi-dress, or the staid white button-up paired with a navy skirt, but they were rare rough spots in a collection that shows just how far these girls have come in just a few short seasons.

And so the love affair continues.

Photos by Dennis Marciniak

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