Argentine designer honors first lady Eva Peron

(17 Jun 2010) SHOTLIST
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AP Television
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 15 June, 2010
1. Wide of exterior of military club where the fashion show took place
2. Blonde models waiting for make up at show back stage
3. Various of make up products
4. Various of model at make-up
5. Various of accessories for show
6. Fashion designer Jorge Ibanez talking to media
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jorge Ibanez/Designer: "We will die one day but she will keep being an icon and she has been an icon politically, socially and in fashion as well. I would have loved to dress her. I would have designed her something with chiffon, velvet and put her something like a headdress with crystals. "
8. Cutaway of dresses ready for show
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jorge Ibanez/Designer: "She had a very glamorous style, very distinguished, she would wear fashion in a divine way, she was always impeccable. She would mark very well her hips, her shoulders she was really into the details, the hairdo, the headdress. She was really a woman that was into everything, the stockings the gloves and I wanted to bring all that glamour she had to our days and I designed a collection more up to date, more of our days but with her spirit. "
10. Wide of Military Club hall as show is about to start
11. Various of local celebrity Mirtha Legrand dressed-up resembling Eva Peron
12. Various of fashion show
13. Various of Argentine singer Valeria Lynch singing the Spanish version of "Don't cry for me Argentina"
14. Model Ingrid Grudke dressed like Eva Peron entering hall as Lynch sings
15. Various of Grudke walking around hall and on catwalk
16. Singer Valeria Lynch dressed up as Eva Peron saluting audience
17. Audience applauding
18. Various of models walking around hall as show ends
19. Audience applauding
20. Ibanez saluting from balcony
21. Ibanez inviting Grudke and Lynch on catwalk as show ends
22. Ibanez with Grudke and Lynch greeting audience
STORYLINE
ARGENTINE DESIGNER PAYS HOMAGE TO EVITA'S STYLE
With cinched waists and sleek chignons, two dozen models showed designer Jorge Ibanez's new "Evita 2010" collection, inspired by Argentina's iconic first lady, Eva Peron.
"We are in the year of the bicentennial, showing our patriotism just below the skin," Ibanez told The Associated Press backstage before his fashion show Tuesday night. "I thought, 'What woman, more than Evita, has represented us during these 200 years?'"
Projecting femininity and power, these Evitas appeared in updated versions of Peron's wasp-waist suits and ball gowns, drifting down a spiral staircase in the historic Palacio Paz mansion on Buenos Aires' Plaza San Martin. They wore modern versions of the tailored suits Peron wore while attending to Argentina's poorest, the people she called her "descamisados," or shirtless ones.
Ibanez included black sequins, silver fabric and in some cases, shoulders so exaggerated and angular that they almost seem menacing. His bell-shaped ball gowns echo those Evita wore to state functions - complete with gloves, hats and seamed stockings.
Peron was one of the first Argentine women to wear pants in public. Ibanez tucks jodhpurs into riding boots with a belted, fur-trimmed jacket.
Evita, who died of ovarian cancer at just 33 in 1952, wore clothing by the best Argentine and international designers. At the time, some Argentine fashion designers hid the fact that they dressed Peron to avoid upsetting their high-society clients. She still has many detractors, but attitudes are changing, Regolo says: "You wouldn't have seen this 20 years ago."

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