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Del Valle unveils Winter Couture Collection, featuring Alice Bjorksdattir
Royal Blue, soft feminine Silhouettes in fashion this year
Sulari, Duchy of Ananto
September 25, 5693


Alice Bjorksdattir showcases Del Valle's Winter Couture, from Maria-Elena Aguilar

Famed Kalistani couture designers Del Valle released their Winter Collection. The collection stars pieces created by notable Yoshimi designer Maria-Elena Aguilar and was shown in Sulari this week. "I am really attracted to this royal blue this year," said Aguilar at her studio in Sulari. "Its such an attractive color, and its so beautiful and versatile. You can put it on for a formal occasion, or you can wear it out for drinks with the ladies. And when properly fitted, it is meant to accentuate the figure of any woman."

Like most of Kalistan's winter couture, the primary fabric chosen is the ultra posh vicuña wool, which is annually imported from Gaduri sources at tremendous expense. "The wool is so soft and fine, and it is durable, but, it is also very expensive, so these dresses are meant to be worn when you really want to show off," said Aguilar. But of course, a woman does not buy haute couture to wear it to work. That would be silly." She said the pieces worn today were one of a kind, but based on pre-orders, Del Valle is prepared to produce replications from Aguilar's meticulous notes. "Today, the star of the show was the clothes, but also, the beautiful women wearing them. Including Ms. Bjorksdattir..."

Indeed, the top model on the bill this week was Alice Bjorksdattir, who is represented by Kauffman Modelling Agency in Sulari and was recently signed to a three year exclusive deal with Del Valle. "This show was her coming out party, so to speak," said Aguilar of the curvy 24 year old Kaliburg native. "She is such a natural beauty, but of course, she's has a little fuller figure than many of our models, she's a little curvier, and I think this just adds to her beauty for sure, but since she's not your run-of-the-mill model size, she allows me to be a bit more creative with the designs. For example, one of the dresses was mostly fishnet. It kind of required forced me to add some extra support which I wouldn't have to add for smaller ladies to make sure things didn't, sort of, fall out, when they were meant to stay put." Aguilar said that the trick was a stiffer net that held its shape better and turned into more of a "breast plate" rather than a loose pliable cloth. "She loved it. She said it was daring."

Bjorksdattir began modelling in her teens, where she was seen in commercials for everything from shampoo, to cosmetics, to becoming the spokesteen for the Dulnerstaad based youth oriented environmental non-profit, the Ananto Reef Restoration Project. Following her National Service, Bjorksdattir returned to modelling, and as an unsigned model, became a calendar girl for Dah Surf Company. "No, I don't know how to surf," said Bjorksdattir in 5692. "But the good thing is, Dah just needs good looking men and women to sell surfboards, wetsuits, wax, deck shorts and bikinis, not champion surfers. So I got lucky, by winning the good looks lottery and being blessed with a body like this."

Bjorksdattir is a distant relative of former Foreign Minister Christopher Bjorksdattir and the current king in Egelion as well, making her a member of one of the oldest political families in Kalistan. "I guess Port Elga is named after my 50th Greats grandmother," she said. "I think there is so little of that genetic material left after all this time that the name is more important than counting generations. Because for each one of those greats, there was some man or woman from outside the family who came in and mixed their family in with mine. So I'm probably more closely related to some guy named Smith than I am to the former President or some king somewhere or whatever."

The Del Valle Winter Couture collection by Maria-Elena Aguilar is currently available for direct order, and soon after the new year, clothes inspired by the collection will be available at retail outlets across the nation for the rest of us. To see the whole collection and photos from the Del Valle show, as well as an exclusive interview with both Sra. Aguilar and Ms. Bjorksdattir, check out https://delvallecouture.ks.

@LaModa