Fashion June 10, 2010 By Eugene Rabkin

damir page5 Damir Doma    Doma wants to bring in the same aesthetic into his women’s line, which debuted this March in Paris. For women, he showed volume again. The garments flowed gracefully as the models walked down the catwalk, their bodies completely covered. “This is the look that some Japanese designers already showed in the ’80s, and I would like to refresh it. I don’t want to show skin, that’s not interesting. That’s what a lot of women’s wear is at the moment, and it’s a cheap and easy way to do fashion. I don’t think that’s how women want to dress. I want to go in a different direction. I want monochromatic colors, the shapes, and volumes. I don’t want to show skin. My woman has to bring her own attitude to the outfit.”
    So far the fashion public has been receptive to Doma’s clothes and his business has been growing fast. He already created a line of basics, called Silent, and has created a perfume as a part of the Six Scents project. Typically, young designers don’t get to do a perfume because of high barriers to entry, and Doma was happy to take the opportunity. “For me the fragrance was such a nice and interesting experience. It’s a field that I did not know at all before, and I am super happy with the results,” said Doma. The woody, incense-y smell of the perfume is complex and layered, like his clothes. “I wanted the fragrance to have a lot of character. I wrote a six-page story about what I would like it to smell. It was about my birth, how I would wake up in a church, and sense all the smells there, and then I would grow up and leave the church and enter the world with all the nature and trees in it, and smell all that.” In a sense, this could serve as a metaphor of Doma’s quick maturing in the world of fashion.

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