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<h3>Introducing... Roger Craig Searle</h3>
<p>One of the earliest winners of the Grolsch student fashion awards,
and the designer of the ultimate anti-fur garment for Lynx' first
competition, Roger has been quietly serving time and studying his
craft in the demi-couture world of Donald Campbell. The introduction
of a younger diffusion range, DCD, was instigated, designed and produced
by him, becoming an integral part of the House. </p>
<p>His emphasis has been on quality, fit, creativity and the ability
to flatter the female form. </p>
<p>All of this knowledge and talent has been suffused in Roger Craig
Searle's first solo commercial collection. </p>
<p>The designer has created a beautiful, yet edgy synthesis of glamour,
debauchery and anarchy. </p>
<p>This, his S/S 2001 capsule collection is a raucous soirée
affair. The feel is of louche evenings spent in St Tropez, bacchanalian
nights in Isherwoods Berlin and that tribal street look of '76. </p>
<p>Bleach splattered kimono styled coats and jackets are the perfect
foil for delicate beaded tops and shot silk fluted ankle length skirts.
Cropped 'slit back' trousers are worn with crisp white cotton wrap
shirts for early cocktails and for later, there are silk chiffon scarf
neck blouses. </p>
<p>Twisted double silk crepe skirts and coatdresses have intricate drawstring
open-back details, showing a sexy small amount of flesh. Floaty doubled
layered silk chiffon haltergowns are clasped at the neck by beaded
macramé cuffs which also plunge beneath the neck line of the definitive
smoking trouser suit.</p>
<p>The eclectic mix and fusion of silk with leather, lightweight wool
with beaded and torn chiffon in sultry peacock colours of midnight,
bronze, azure and emerald make this an unmissable collection.</p>
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<li><a href="javascript:MM_openBrWindow('album.html','album','width=430,height=460')">See
the spring/summer 2001 collection</a>
<li><a href="javascript:MM_openBrWindow('gallery.html','gallery','width=430,height=460')">See
Roger's designs</a>
<li><a href="contact.html">Contact Roger Craig Searle</a>
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