Designer dress trends and market analysis

Silk Designer

Eki Orleans is a brand/company that represents the intriguing designs of a contemporary designer, Hazel Eki Aggrey-Orleans. The fabrics and colors used in her designs are always vibrant, fun, and energetic. Even in the models used for her works, there is diversity and exuberance -- just as much or more than the dresses themselves, which makes her designs truly pop. There is a distinctive fluidity and flexibility to Hazel and her works.

Hazel Eki Aggrey-Orleans has a multicultural history, which directly influences her design style and techniques. Her Nigerian and German heritage gives her a unique perspective from which to approach making dresses that reflect those influences as well as appeal to women of various cultures similar and different from her own. She began first as a designer of silk scarves and after a few years transitioned into a designer of silk dresses. The strips in the lower half of the dress resemble scarves in their length and width, but she has attached them to a dress. This dress then is a unique blending of her former talents and her new talents together in a bright and attractive dress appropriate for summer.

The dress screams "Flow!" The top of the dress could be a jumpsuit but then high up on the thigh the dress breaks into beautiful strips. This is a dress for movement. This dress is certainly one for strutting on the French Riviera or making the rounds as a glamorous hostess at a housewarming party. The patterns of the fabric resembles patterns that were popularized in the 1970s in the United States. There are regular and irregular shapes and patterns of the shapes in this silk number. It is a dress that accentuates length and curves where they are present. The dress would do very nicely in the breeze, so it would be great to wear as evening wear on a trip to island countries where there is a consistent breeze.

The dress is revealing yet there is coverage, most specifically in the area of the torso. There is a faux slit in the chest to give the appearance or the illusion or even the slightest hint of cleavage. This chose in design is a sign of class. There is certainly enough skin exposed by the pattern of the dress, particularly in the legs and in that the dress is sleeveless, revealing parts of the shoulders and the entire arms. The slit in the chest is sexy, but there remains some elegance and self-respect. The design states that women wearing this dress are happy to reveal parts of their body, but that it is unnecessary for women who wear this dress to be entirely naked in order to feel beautiful, elegant, and sexy.