“We aren’t trying to please everyone anymore,” Kristopher Brock reported on a Zoom from California. For all the challenges designers have faced this year, a silver lining was the extra time and space to refocus on what they do best and what their customer really wants.
The energy Brock and Laura Vassar might’ve expended on a runway show in the past and on looks that felt “worthy” of that stage is now reserved for communicating with their clients and retail partners about what works. If that sounds unromantic on paper, know that the Brock woman is still here for major romance; the bustier dresses, antique florals, and puffed-up sleeves aren’t disappearing. There was just a new sense of casualness about them for pre-fall, plus a touch of the American prairie, an era when women relied on feminine yet hardworking clothes. The floral dresses here were long and lean, and Vassar noted that they’ve expanded their ultra-special knits, from a crystal-embroidered cardigan to an
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“Hosea” is a brief Old Testament book in which God shocks both his readers and his prophet by ordering him to marry a sexually promiscuous woman.
It’s also the name of a thoughtful and absorbing new movie that transfers this story to 21st-century Oklahoma where the smitten Henry relentlessly pursues the love of his life, even though she’s knee-deep in prostitution and narcotics.
It’s a simple plot, and in lesser hands, it might feel improbable as well. But “Hosea” released by the fledgling Small Group Films is utterly convincing; and it never drags for a minute. This debut feature from director Ryan Daniel Dobson achieves an almost mesmeric spell from its very first scenes, thanks partly to Dobson’s articulate, read-between-the-lines script and to a sensational lead performance by Camille Rowe.