{"id":17421,"date":"2010-12-22T07:22:07","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T15:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/?p=17421"},"modified":"2010-12-22T07:22:33","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T15:22:33","slug":"nim-botors-kimono-chic-state-of-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/style\/fashion\/nim-botors-kimono-chic-state-of-independence","title":{"rendered":"Nim Botor&#8217;s Kimono Chic: State of Independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-17424\" href=\"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/fashion\/nim-botors-kimono-chic-state-of-independence\/attachment\/kimono\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-17426\" href=\"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/fashion\/nim-botors-kimono-chic-state-of-independence\/attachment\/kimono-3\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17426 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/kimono2-224x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/kimono2-224x300.png 224w, http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/kimono2-490x655.png 490w, http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/kimono2.png 772w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Philippines-born and Texas-raised, Nim Botor, a self-taught designer, uses his eye for style, drape and fit to create stunning (and sometimes futuristic) garments for today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fashionable, modern women (in other words, you).<\/p>\n<p>Since he can remember, Nim tells Signature9,  \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I was always fascinated by the female form and dress, visually devouring fashion magazines from cover to cover and trying to recreate and illustrate those images on paper.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>His experience and talent soared working as a design assistant to New York design duo, Pepper&amp;Pistol as well as Texan designer, Cesar Galindo (who is currently kicking butt as a contestant on the hit Bravo series, <em>The Fashion Show<\/em>, hosted by Iman).<\/p>\n<p>We were inspired by this particular piece from Nim\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Kimono 2010\u00e2\u20ac\u009d collection, an array of coats and outerwear inspired by the elegance of the Japanese kimono and the ease and comfort of classic American sportswear. This particular collaboration of eastern clothing traditions and western dress conveys a new and modern aesthetic.<\/p>\n<p>The pullover-silhouette coat in a cream-colored wool and cashmere blend offers a spin on the classic bomber jacket. Detailed with a funnel neck, exposed industrial side zipper, exaggerated kimono sleeves, and inverted center back pleat, this one-of-a-kind creation will surely get you noticed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philippines-born and Texas-raised, Nim Botor, a self-taught designer, uses his eye for style, drape and fit to create stunning (and sometimes futuristic) garments for today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fashionable, modern women (in other words, you).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5045,185,2467,6846,5044,5043,1720,102,2001],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17421"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17421"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17449,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17421\/revisions\/17449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}