PARIS — Just one year ago, the storied house of Ungaro was stone cold, with but the slightest trace of a pulse. After a last-ditch resuscitation last season brought it back from the brink and into the land of the living, Monday's sexed-up fall-winter 2011-12 ready-to-wear collection got the house's heart rate up and its temperature rising.
The label's saviour is Giles Deacon, the British designer who breathed new life into Ungaro last season, in the wake of the label's near-fatal collaboration with starlet Lindsay Lohan. His sexy and sweet cocktail numbers in lace and chiffon were beautiful little concoctions, but perhaps a tad too saccharine for a high-end clothing market obsessed with edginess.This season, Deacon delivered hard-edged looks that were all about bondage and lingerie, in leather and lace, with a touch of animal savagery.
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