Tristan Webber (Q9381)
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Tristan Webber is a fashion house from FMD.
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Tristan Webber |
Tristan Webber is a fashion house from FMD. |
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Tristan Webber's models painted quite a picture when they filed down the aisle and waited for the designer to take his bow. Was this the casting call for a new version ofFlash Gordon?Return to the Planet of the Space-Age Vixens?Webber's very gutsy gals wore everything from red and black leather tops with a shoulder flap, and one-legged and one-armed bodysuits, to top-heavy, silver-trimmed jackets that could've been cut with an Exacto knife, and tiny skirts that exposed skin-tight fetish rubber stockings. Built-in hoods on poured-on satin shirts, exaggerated motorcycle jackets and side-slit trousers were the tamer pieces of a truly outrageous collection.Webber's show was a powerful styling exercise, and there is no doubt that he has considerable tailoring skills. But it would've been nice to see at least one piece that could be worn on the street.
25 September 2000
Tristan Webber is London's king of leather—a fabric which he contorts and reinvents with amazing style and flair. He is also a fanatically inventive tailor, whose curvaceous seaming mimics human muscle structure. Combine the two, and you have a very chic, sleek look that is now becoming a convincing signature for this designer. On the more wearable side, Webber had a slim white punched leather skirtsuit that was as edgy as it was classy; geometrically patchworked raw-shearling coats; and a sharp green leather jacket with cutout work so intricate it resembled stitching. On the creative side, Webber pulled out a stretched neon-green mesh top with mask attached; delicate green, red and white chiffon dresses and some terrifyingly tight leather frocks. Undoubtedly influenced by early Alaïa and Mugler, Webber makes the skintight vixen-look new.
16 February 2000
Tristan Webber's talent is with tailoring, particularly in leather and this season this young Saint Martin's graduate delivered an extremely creative and beautiful take on his signature look of seamed leather. Using the veins of a butterly wing as inspiration for his seaming, Webber joined the palest blue leather with chiffons or high-tech knits to create some unbelievably sharp tailoring. There were some to-die-for jackets and coats whose tailoring techniques were as sensous and curvacious as the female body. Webber is a truly original tailor who has to be congratulated for pioneering unique and new techniques that will undoubtedly influence the rest of the fashion world. Pale blue chiffon skirts and dresses, skin tight or looser and printed with flesh-pink 'veins' were wonderfully pretty and feminine. Webber has developed his obsession with the fusion of human anatomy and the anatomy of tailoring to create something less macabre than in previous seasons—in fact, you could call it as elegant as it was edgy.
23 September 1999