Designer A-Z

Richard Nicoll

Spring/Summer 2010

SHOW SCHEDULES

By Emma Sells

Richard Nicoll is a designer whose time has come.

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All his early promise has been consolidated into a coherent sense of vision - illustrated by this spring/summer 2010 show, which built beautifully on last season's triumphs. In a lovely palette of dusty colours and Tahitian-inspired two-tone floral prints, largely in silks, he offered up a sort of greatest hits collection, which still managed to feel fresh and new. Easy slim trousers, flattering T-shirt dresses (his biggest seller for AW09), cute short-sleeve shirts, oversized blazers and sexy cocktail dresses with corsets or lingerie detailing made up the body of the show. While we might have seen some of the shapes before, fringing, sarong-style knots and rosette decoration added a whole new level of interest. Pretty, young and desirable.