Designer profile: Amanda deLeon
 

Amanda deLeon's clean, structured designs somehow manage to be both classically chic and slightly unnerving: Ridged, leather panels emerge like a spine from the back of an otherwise prim shift dress; in a jacket from her 2011 fall/winter collection, interwoven leather strips encase the wearer like an asylum cage. "I'm definitely a darker personality, so I think that?s what my clothing shows," says deLeon, who cites Nicolas Ghesquiere of Balenciaga as an influence.? [ Read more ]

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