Cooperative Designs designers, Annalisa Dunn and Dorothee Hagemann met on the MA Fashion course at Central St Martins in London 2007. Both specializing in knitwear their creative take on design uses traditional techniques mixed with new materials and technologies.
Louise Goldin’s futuristic military collection was in the usual Goldin style of very structured and padded silhouettes. Colour palettes of moss greens and army blues with red and gold accents run with the current military trends of New York and London fashion week.
Holly Fulton is making a name for herself in London with big bold prints and larger than life plastic jewelery. Having already won the Swarovski Emerging Talent Award for Accessories at the British Fashion Awards 2009. This fresh designer from Scotland’s cut out plastics and chunky swarovski jewels are set to make her one to [...]
Mary Katrantzou’s AW 10/11 collection was based around 18th century portraiture and in particular Madame de Pompadour and the paintings of Fragonard and Nattier. At Mary Katrantzou’s exhibition space, she revealed to me ‘The prints are baroque inspired. I wanted to challenge myself by taking dresses the women and men used to wear and make [...]
Enter the world of Louise Gray! a circus of colors prints and textures patch-worked together for a crazy fun collection! Gray’s AW 10/11 presentation for London Fashion Week saw lots of fun embroidered pieces on models with high crimped pony tails and brightly painted eyebrows! They were all dancing about whilst a DJ in an eccentric blue fur coat provided the music!
There was something so refreshing about London Fashion Week this round. I felt this feeling of tireless radiance throughout most of the shows. There was color, shape, textile development, and risk that altogether excited me much more than New York. Of course in the midst of this overwhelming dynamic there were bits of undismissable disappointment,