Leila Shams Spring 2010

Leila Shams is a Persian designer based in Brooklyn, and defined her first collection by her love of excess:

"My whole career I have been criticized for being too over the top. I had a million ideas I couldn't wait to get out of my system. My first collection is just that- all the stuff that in my former life was too bright, too expensive, too short, too sparkly, too edgy, too loud, too Leila. I was inspired by the 80s movie Weird Science, and by the jungle."



Weird Science? Can it get any better? Let's find out...







Entire collection here.

PS- This dress, though teetering on the line between brilliant and tacky IMO, is still pretty striking nonetheless: