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Profile: Catherine Malandrino Profile

Website: www.catherinemalandrino.com

Catherine Malandrino, shown here on the left, was born in Paris. She is married with a son Oliver, and is based in New York.

She was creative director for Et Vous in Paris, then for Louis Feraud Haute Couture. She moved to New York and became head designer for Diane von Furstenberg. In 1998 Catherine launched her own label from a workshop in Soho, New York. Her clothes started to be retailed at Henri Bendel store.

Malandrino's fashion creations have featured in Style, New York Times, Vogue and Elle and her celebrity clients are numerous including Madonna, Julia Roberts, Mary J. Blige, Cameron Diaz, Winona Ryder and Penelope Cruz.

Catherine's clothes are simple and sexy. She makes wrap and pleat mini-skirts in satin and suede, leather and metallic quilted jackets, leather pants as well as wispy summer dresses in chiffon with ruffles and embroidery.

She shows her seasonal collections at the New York fashion week in February and September each year.

Spring/Summer 2004

• During New York fashion week in September 2003, Maladrino showed her collection for Spring next year. She presented a range of stretch skirts, slim pants and leather garments with elegant lines. One velvet suit from the show is pictured on the right.
• She also included butterfly-necktie blouses and long silk dresses knotted at the waist. Her colours were wine red and silver. Lenny Kravitz sat in the front row.

Fall/Winter 2004

• The Fall collection was shown during New York Fashion Week in February 2004. Catherine sent distressed torn, off the shoulder sweaters, cropped trousers, blanket-like cardigans and fur-trimmed stiletto sandals. She put enormous poofs of Davy Crockett raccoons on the heads of some of her models.

Spring/Summer 2005

• During New York Fashion Week in September 2004, Catherine Malandrino presented her Spring collection.
• She turned her show into a great colourful pary, based on Blake Edwards 1968 movie "The Party." She had the show on the future site of her newest store in New York, with glass chandeliers and white sofas and a string quartet playing in the background. The clothes were innocent white, and a watercolour palette, summer party dresses with empire-waist lines, and Bermuda shorts with linen sleeveless tops. The collection was reminiscent of a time long ago.