ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br /> <br />STORY: Agatha Ruiz de la Prada brought her trademark splash of color to Lima on Wednesday (April 10) by presenting a never-before-seen commercial autumn/winter collection featuring skirts, dresses, tunics and jeans.<br /> <br />Key pieces included stripped knitted dresses and flower and polka dots in shades of pink, green, purple, blue, red, yellow and orange.<br /> <br />Some 1,200 guests at Lima's Fashion Week looked on as models wearing glittery silver heels sashayed down the catwalk with Ruiz de la Prada's famed heart-shape painted on their hair which was pulled back by a colourful headband.<br /> <br />Ruiz de la Prada first stepped into the fashion world in 1981 with her first woman's collection in Madrid. Her line became a success and she soon opened her first studio-shop in the Spanish capital and started to participate in fashion shows in Madrid and Barcelona. Her creations became well-known in Spain after they started being sold at the Corte Ingles.
