Suzanne Rae

                              Suzanne Rae







        'Victorian Gone Grunge'


Suzanne Rae is an independent Brooklyn based fashion designer who creates feminist and feminine designs by employing local talent and supporting local industries.Suzanne Rae's  women’s line inspired by and made for the progressive, modern woman. Both feminist and feminine, it explores the multiple juxtapositions of a woman’s being and interprets these abstract ideas into tangible garments. By creating 'feminist' designs, Suzanne Rae designs garments that are very straight, basic and question femininity. A Lot of Rae's designs are based on androgyny and this questions femininity as the garments do not show of a traditional 'woman like figure'. Androgyny links in to soft grunge a lot as the look of oversized,baggy and layering is seem to be what men wear. Suzanne Rae links this into her garments by the idea of not being a 'traditional woman' and dressing differently which others may see as not feminine however being top at the style chain, and being very high end fashion today. 
All samples from her collection are created in-house from start to finish with 100% of production done in New York City's Garment District. Without the garment district, local emerging designers, and even established designers who started out in New York, would not have been able to realize their designs and contribute to the American fashion industry. I really liked looking at Suzanne Rae's Fall 2011 collection 'Victorian Gone Grunge' you can really see the inspiration when looking at the garments. One outfit that i particularly liked what the checked tweed suit matching jacket and trousers, the suit print is vintage and dates back however, the way the jacket is oversized and the trousers are peg leg adds a more high end fashion feel to them. This also links back to Androgyny with the oversized suit jackets.
The reason I picked this designer was because Suzanne Rae's work is not completely grunge, however it links with the androgyny theme which I like as I like to wear oversized shirts and baggy jumpers.