Solylence Presents New Fashions

FashionStarModels manager Mariella Spitteler and announcer and model monica Dieterle presented their star team of fashion models wearing designer Solylence Houston's summer line for Solylence Creations, inspired by her travels in Africa and Asia, and including fashions for women and men. Cafee, Ruben, Lorac, Tesan, Shona, and Babi demonstrated their professionalism and talent in displaying the designer's work, a variety of outfits perfect for casual days of shopping and hanging out with friends, and hot steamy nights of dancing and dinner, and all your SL social events. There were a number of different denim washes available for men's jeans, with nice complementary colors for casual and dress shirts and tees, allowing your man to go from a summer wedding to a gallery opening to a club or two (or three), while the looks for girls favored short-skirted but classy and tasteful dresses with flirty ruffles and accessorized with high heels (we love that they don't hurt the feet in SL, all the better to lengthen already long shapely legs!), but also included short sets for the beach, and gowns for more formal evening events. My favorite was Temador, a deep teal, full-skirted evening gown with a white gardenia accenting a single asymmetrical shoulder and a fitted bodice to compliment a toned torso and every single curve from every angle, with a subtle brocade-like texture. Cafee wore it well, and managed to make the sweeping train seem very easy to maneuver. At the end of the show, the designer appeared in one of her African wax prints shaped into a dramatic strapless gown, a signature that I wish had been retained for this current collection. Perhaps she will work with some ethnic woven fabrics again for her fall or winter or resort collections; in the meantime, I do have many of them in my inventory already that are perfect for summer and summer-into-fall wear as well as for resort season (which is all the time in SL, right?). I applaud Solylence for her past and ongoing contributions to African Diasporic creativity in SL, combining the best aesthetics of different African ethnic traditions with the inspiration of cosmopolitan styles, and I look forward to her next show, which I know will be as well-attended and enjoyable as today's show.