Chalayan has worked closely with internationally renowned jewellery designer FLorian on this collection and together they have developed show pieces using Swarovski crystal and delicate crystal pearls. Paring unexpected materials such as wood in the crystal pearl dress, the results are a fusion that is typical of FLorian’s desire for beauty and curiosity
October 4, 2006 - Sarah Mower « style.com »
Today’s spectacle was one of the increasingly rare occasions on which fashion still has the power to astonish, provoke, and send a visceral sensation through its audience. This was fashion addressing the subject of fashion, a dissection of our contemporary habit of recycling “vintage,” and an embrace of high technology, all at the same time. It wasn’t just the uncanny sight of the self-undressing clothes (tech-genius courtesy of the team who made the hippogriff in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban) that provided the chills.
October 6, 2006 Love affair with a dress - Suzy Menkes (International Herald Tribune)
Hussein Chalayan’s show, with its pretty dress and techno magic, excited various emotions….
