Fashion Show Events: La Perla

During coverage of Boston’s 2008 Fashion Week, September 9–18, nationally recognized style expert Erica Corsano and contributor to The Boston Globe wrote the following which is excerpted from its September 14 issue:


	Photo credit: John Nikolai

Bringing sexy back

Lingerie fashion shows always make us a little skeptical. Even at their best... the shows can be a bit, well, unsavory, what with all the thongs and bare skin and strutting. That said, La Perla is the Chanel of undergarments, so when the Fashion Week folks added a La Perla show at the InterContinental Hotel to the roster of events, it promised to be sexy rather than sleazy.

And for the most part it was, thanks to Mary Garthe, who’s been in the fashion show biz since 1988 and has organized shows for the likes of Philippe Starck and Boston Ballet.

Tim Kirwan, the hotel’s general manager, stressed the importance of supporting fashion in Boston. “For InterContinental Boston, tying in with Boston’s cultural arena is one of our continued endeavors... Hosting an upscale and quality luxury fashion show is one of the ways we are doing so.”