{"id":709360,"date":"2025-11-18T23:57:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T20:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=709360"},"modified":"2025-11-18T23:57:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T20:57:35","slug":"16arlington-and-antony-price-bring-high-octane-80s-glamour-and-a-whole-lotta-soul-to-a-chilly-london-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=709360","title":{"rendered":"16Arlington and Antony Price Bring High-Octane \u201980s Glamour\u2014and a Whole Lotta Soul\u2014to a Chilly London Night"},"content":{"rendered":"
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16Arlington and Antony Price Bring High-Octane \u201980s Glamour\u2014and a Whole Lotta Soul\u2014to a Chilly London Night<\/h1>\n
By <\/span>Liam Hess<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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    Marco Capaldo doesn\u2019t remember exactly where he first saw Antony Price\u2019s work, but he does remember when a dress by Price made him sit up and take notice. Back in 2021, the designer\u2019s late partner and co-founder of the 16Arlington brand, Kikka Cavenati, was looking online for a dress to wear as maid-of-honor to her best friend\u2019s wedding, when she stumbled across a vintage bias-cut dress by Price\u2014the legendary, if widely undersung, designer behind some of the most memorable fashion moments of the 1970s and \u201980s. (By chance, a couple of years before that, Price had crossed paths with the two designers at a party, and complimented them on their dedication to bringing a new spirit of full-throttle glamour to London fashion.)<\/p>\n

    Earlier this year, while reorganizing his studio, Capaldo came across the dress again, which Cavenati tragically never got to wear. Somewhat spontaneously, he decided to reach out to Price. \u201cWe spoke on the phone, and that was that,\u201d Capaldo remembers. \u201cI checked my phone, and we\u2019d been speaking for about four-and-a-half hours.\u201d<\/p>\n

    When I meet them both in the 16Arlington studio a few days before the show, they\u2019re surrounded by a swirl of activity: Price, wearing a cap of his own making decorated with a military badge, is overseeing the placement of feathers on a crinolined mini dress that will be worn by the model Alva Claire, while Capaldo is leafing through a rack of archival Price designs lent to them for the project by the fashion writer and collector Alexander Fury, an enthusiastic champion of Price\u2019s work who also became involved in the project.<\/p>\n

    \u201cMy memory isn\u2019t what it was these days, but it all comes rushing back to me when I see them dredged out of the ark\u2014I was personally involved in every piece,\u201d Price says, with a smile, after they settle in Capaldo\u2019s office. Price himself owns few of his own pieces still, having been forced to \u201cflog everything to pay the machinists and landlords\u201d when he closed his label in the 1990s: \u201cIt\u2019s very trying, to be a businessman and a creative at the same time. Usually the two things completely hate each other, even if they\u2019re necessary to each other. But somehow, I survived for a while.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Surviving is putting it mildly: in his heyday, Price\u2019s vision was practically inescapable. Even if you don\u2019t know his name, you\u2019ll know many of the era-defining images and outfits he helped create: Roxy Music\u2019s Siren<\/em> album cover, featuring Jerry Hall crawling over a rocky outcrop on the shores of Anglesey, or the outfit worn by Amanda Lear on the cover of the band\u2019s For Your Pleasure<\/em> album, or the shiny black dress worn by Gala Mitchell on the back cover of Lou Reed\u2019s Transformer<\/em> vinyl. His menswear was a triumph too: he designed plenty of the wide-lapeled suits worn by Bryan Ferry over the years, as well as custom looks for David Bowie and Mick Jagger.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    But what really draws Capaldo to Price\u2019s work is the technical wizardry of his garments, from his masterful bias cuts of his dresses to his razor-sharp men\u2019s tailoring to the meticulous construction of his corseted jackets. \u201cIt\u2019s just that the way Antony understands the body, and the clever trickery in pivoting a dart ever so slightly, or building a corset in a specific way,\u201d Capaldo says. \u201cI think it was his love of the body that drew me to him, and how he mastered making both men and women feel like these incredible super-humans. There\u2019s this real love of glamour, and there\u2019s this real love of just making people feel really good.\u201d<\/p>\n

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    Still, as the pair spent the past year working on the collection\u2014continuing to talk on the phone \u201cfor hours every day,\u201d according to Capaldo\u2014they came to realize the connection between their design styles lay in something more profound. \u201cI think there was something really inspiring about the people that surrounded Antony, and I felt there was this real parallel between the people that surrounded Antony and the people that surround me,\u201d says Capaldo. Price was also famous for the spectacle of his runway shows, which he staged at iconic London venues like the Camden Palace and the Hippodrome, and often opened to the public. They turned up in droves to witness Hall and Marie Helvin strut down the runway in zipped leather skirts and motorcycle helmets to the sound of engines revving, and to look for Mick Jagger and the Duran Duran boys in the crowd. \u201cBut all those famous people weren\u2019t necessarily that famous at the time,\u201d Price points out. \u201cThey\u2019ve become household names since, but they were like Marco\u2019s young friends starting out now.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    So, when it came time to figure out how to present the 16-look collection Capaldo and Price had concocted, they decided to keep things simple, and to focus on the clothes. On Monday night, a crowd of fashion editors and friends\u2014Simone Ashley, Beth Ditto, and Tali Lennox, whose mom Annie famously wore a look by Price to sing with David Bowie at a Freddie Mercury tribute concert\u2014gathered outside of Capaldo\u2019s studio off the Hackney Road in East London, bundled up in scarves and gloves due to a London cold snap. (Also in the mix were a number of friends of Price\u2019s: Philip Treacy, Duran Duran\u2019s Nick Rhodes, and representing the Roxy Music contingent, Bryan Ferry\u2019s son Tara.) Inside, the chaos of the studio from days before had been entirely expunged. The bare bones of the room\u2019s concrete walls and exposed wiring across the ceiling\u2014not to mention the glasses of Champagne being passed around\u2014gave it the feeling of a party at an industrial loft.<\/p>\n

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    To a soundtrack of clattering drums and jangling guitars that sounded exactly like a Roxy Music track given a 2025 update, a dazzling roll-call of models vamped their way around the space in chiffon and crystals and feathers, before pausing to pose in front of photographer Felix Cooper, who was crouched on all fours like David Hemmings in Blow-Up,<\/em> calling out their names over the music: Adwoa Aboah, Edie Campbell, Paloma Elsesser, Lara Stone, Jean Campbell, Alva Claire, Kai Isiah Jamal\u2014the list goes on. (It certainly speaks to the sense of community Capaldo has cultivated around the brand that many of them offered up their services for a small-scale, off-season runway show in London, with some even flying in from overseas to support the project.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    Kit Butler strutted in a glossy midnight blue dupioni suit, offering a brief showcase of Price\u2019s equally accomplished way with menswear, while Lila Moss took a turn in a strapless bodice dress bedecked with silvered cock feathers, loosely inspired by a Price dress that belongs to her mom, Kate. Naturally, the moment that prompted the most dramatic flurry of raised iPhones was Lily Allen, riding high off the success of her blistering comeback album West End Girl,<\/em> in an impeccably structured strapless velvet dress with a tail that flicked behind her to reveal a punchy absinthe-colored satin on the interior, a Vogue cigarette dangling from her mouth. Turns out you don\u2019t need whizz-bang theatrics to create the kind of extravaganza Price\u2019s fashion shows were famous for\u2014you just need the right women wearing the right clothes.<\/p>\n

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    \u201cIt\u2019s going to all be about the energy, and the people we bring together to celebrate Antony,\u201d Capaldo had said a few days before, nodding to the fact that the show was, first and foremost, an opportunity to honor a designer hero of his who he felt had never truly gotten his flowers. (Perhaps unsurprisingly, given the level of craftsmanship involved in each look, the collection will be made-to-order only\u2014though the unusual timing of November to show it makes a lot more sense when you consider it\u2019s the dawn of awards season; these are red carpet looks that celebrity stylists will be clamoring over.)<\/p>\n

    But there were a few more subtle tributes woven through the show, too: the menswear look was a subtle nod to Price\u2019s long-time friend Hugh Devlin, the beloved lawyer who worked on behalf of many in London\u2019s fashion community and died in 2023, and to Cavenati, whose never-worn maid-of-honor dress was brought to mind by the \u2018Heavenly Solaria\u2019 dress, which fused a 16Arlington dress with the subtly padded breasts and hips of a Price classic. Next to the corner where models exited two seats were left empty with a white rose placed upon each, as a tribute to Cavenati and Devlin, to whom the collection was dedicated. The evening was about glamour, yes, but it also had soul.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

    Source URL: http:\/\/vogue.com\/article\/16arlington-antony-price-collaboration-london-show<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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