A day at Battersea with Franc Sarabia

As promised I'm updating the news on the Franc Sarabia collection. 
Battersea White Galleries Exhibition is more of a bridal exhibition than anything else. No-one else had a stand that showed any mother of the bride or evening wear styles so the Sarabia stand was unique in that way.
While they also had the most fantastic collection of wedding gowns on show, it was the mother of the bride and evening wear that we are agents for. 
So on attending the stand it was apparent that a good lot of imagination and careful design had been put into their offerings.

The collection is pretty much half and half from long dresses, evening gown styles and the shorter styles more akin to the mother of the bride market.

I hesitate to put some of the pictures I took from their lookbook on this post as I'm terrible at doing photo'[s on a mobile phone and the lighting was poor with shadows, light glare on the pages et al.

However, I think it important to at least give a flavour of the styles showing. Some are better quality photo's than the others as well so you may be able to get a decent idea from them.

My personal favourite is the one below:

The delicate pink, almost a pale coral, is delightful and the dress is overlaid with the most intricate of lace detail. For the lady who doesn't want boobs on show, the bustline to the lower neck is covered by the lace for a modesty covering. This is a really gorgeous style and the most expensive in the collection, I believe anyway. However price apart, any lady looking for class will be sure to drawn to it. This will be a real winner.

Closely following that is this one.

The colours aren't really showing well on these photos and you can see the glare from the overhead lights as well but if you click on the pictures you'll be able to see the fine detailing of the style.

I'll add one word on the lengths though. The model was on the stand at the white gallery and she must be a good 6'3" so the dress length is very much knee or lower on a normal woman.

Next is this style:

For women wanting cover on the arms this is an ideal dress. The same attention to detail is given on the fine lace. Oh, some of the styles are in different colours as well as those shown and you can often take a jacket from one style to put with another to make up an outfit with your own personal touches.

Talking of delicate and different aren't those just lovely too. Once again there's upper bustline cover, long detailed sleeves with a superbly styled bottom to the dress for a different look to the more formal fit.


I'll just add others and leave you to consider each of them for how they look to you.

The next one has a pretty, well..... shite picture as it's taken at an angle and doesn't give a true proportional representation. The colour is out of this world though.

The sweet little bolero type of short jacket goes extremely well with this style. It can also be used to go with other styles such as dresses depicted without a coat or jacket.

Those are just a few styles from the shorter ones but then you have the long evening wear that are equally as well designed and using the same sort of quality materials. I won't bore you with details on them but show just a couple here for you.

I'm going to leave it at that for now but as soon as I get the proper pictures from a disc I'll be back to place them in another gallery.

I hope these have caught your imagination in the meantime and if there's any you need information on such as when they can seen, where they can be bought from (if you happen to be an end customer) please let me know.

Franc Sarabia is going to be BIG here and now is a good time to get aboard this collection before territorial areas are set.

Apart from existing retailers there will be no shop nearer than 20 miles from any other allowed to have the collection as this is a really exclusive collection with a high price point. Even that distance may be greater if the situation demands.