COLLECTIONS

POSTHUMAN WARDROBE – ONES TO WATCH MEN – LONDON FASHION WEEK/ 22.09.11

Posthuman Wardrobe’s previous collection had a starting point of Brazilian martial art and saw them playing with the ideas of angles and movement.

Similarly, this collection worked to create different shapes by adding darts and lines in new places to influence new volumes by drawing inspiration from lounging and how clothes sit when you are relaxing at home. Talking to him after the show he described how his collection as being based on “what happens when you sit down and seams twist and things gather. So it’s applying these ethics to every day clothes,” which translated on the runway to buttons curving up shirts and twisted detailing.

Nimesh Gadhia combined masterful construction with soft draping fabrics and a medley of textures to create innovative and new physiques and worked in a clinical but dream-like colour palette to an immaculate finish.

 

Images by Tom Chapman

Posted by: Lauren Whitehead

POSTHUMAN WARDROBE- VAUXHALL FASHION SCOUT – SS12 LONDON FASHION WEEK/ 21.09.11

Posthuman Wardrobe’s previous collection had a starting point of Brazilian martial art and saw them playing with the ideas of angles and movement. Similarly, this collection worked to create different shapes by adding darts and lines in new places to influence new volumes by drawing inspiration from lounging and how clothes sit when you are relaxing at home.

Talking to him after the show he described how his collection as being based on “what happens when you sit down and seams twist and things gather. So it’s applying these ethics to every day clothes,” which translated on the runway to buttons curving up shirts and twisted detailing.

 

Nimesh Gadhia combined masterful construction with soft draping fabrics and a medley of textures to create innovative and new physiques and worked in a clinical but dream-like colour palette to an immaculate finish.

Posted by: Lauren Whitehead

MARQUES ALMEIDA – FASHION EAST LONDON FASHION WEEK SS12/ 18.09.11

Fashion East is always one of the most anticipated shows of the season, thanks to Lulu Kennedy’s continuing ability to cherry-pick designers that distill the very ethos of London fashion. Balancing an underground-East London vibe with fashion panache, this morning’s show was a resounding rebuttal to any naysayers who may still be questioning the city’s status as the ultimate fashion capital.

 

Marta Marques and Paulo Almeida, the talented design duo behind Marques Almeida, showed and assured and confident collection that drew inspiration from the 90′s street style, skate culture, The Face and Corrine Day. This could easily have veered into a literal re-hash, but the duo stamped these sources with a very modern identity. Voluminous, square-cut indigo and faded denim pieces came with frayed and torn seams, toughened with flashes of flesh – a shoulder here, and arm or an elbow there – as hem lengths skimmed the thigh.

 

Denim leg warmers, cinched at the ankle, left baggy round the leg, reinforced an androgynous aesthetic. This boy-girl dressing was undercut by the use of lightweight knits elsewhere in the collection. Lighter than air, they seemed almost to float of their own accord, a considered contrast to the heavyweight denim that otherwise dominated. Moody and teenage-angst ridden this isn’t, an accomplished re-think of London street-style it is.

 

Images by: Slobodan Radusavljevic

Posted by: Victoria Loomes

ELLIOT ATKINSON – LONDON FASHION WEEK SS12/ 18.09.11

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Images by: Slobodan Radusavljevic