DC Shoes and Apparel: Fall 2009

DC LIFE Admiral: Fall 2009

DC Shoes had some great thing happening for women for Fall ‘09. Like a lot of brands, the focus has moved from bright color pop and patterns to tone-on-tone colors that emphasize contrasting fabrications. The result for DC is a shoe that looks standard issue from afar, but jumps out upon closer inspection. UPDATE: I’m told by Ida that these hightops are the very first DC LIFE offerings for women. The style is called the Admiral and it was inspired by the popularity of the same in the men’s line. Joseph Ntomp designed the shoe and Collette Gangemi colored the women’s version.

On the other side is DC marketing rep Ida Khabazian modeling a DC dress, and then holding a cute cropped leather jacket. I was struggling with a post-party vodka haze when I visited the booth and she totally woke me up and cheered my day. She is just great, plain and simple.  Funny coincidence story:  after the show I was at a sushi bar and started chatting with my barmate. I was showing him some of the stuff I liked from the show, including the DC jacket, and whoops, turns out the random dude was one of the co-founders of DC! It’s a teeny tiny world we occupy!