By By Liana Satenstein, Staff Writer
For his Spring/Summer collection, designer Raul Melgoza of Luca Luca, took a leap of faith (and fate) with his off –the-shoulder dresses, “watering hole” dampened curls and shimmied sequined tops for his seventies revival collection. In an attempt to recreate the savvy cleanliness of an emerging discotheque queen with simple, bright halter tops, empire waist skirts and capped sleeves, Melgoza’s queen was instead scathed by the handlebar-stached bouncer at face control. Maybe I’m just a jackass but what does this mean exactly? Can it be put into simpler terms? His tepid and half-heartedly crafted high-collared dresses and Miami vice-esque print tops, countered the few decent pieces, such as the cleanly contoured pink and navy silk cocktail dresses. Even though Melgoza’s collection possessed a more than adequate bone structure to be suited by the citrine yet revered allure of the seventies, it was compromised by a gauche dénouement for being too clean, too pretty, too simple, and a poor allude to the seventies’ flair.
