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BORA AKSU – LONDON FASHION WEEK AW12 WOMENSWEAR/ 17.02.12

Four-time NEWGEN recipient Bora Aksu is a London Fashion Week favourite. His cutting edge looks and mastery of technique ensure that his show is an unmissable aspect of the fashion week calendar. Taking as inspiration ‘In the Realms of the Unreal’ – the 15,000-page tome by outsider artist Henry Darger – makes perfect sense for a designer who is always pushing boundaries between reality and the imagined.

 

The influence of this work is played out mainly through colour – the palette was a beautifully soft mix of grey hues from light to charcoal, dusty pinks and burnt orange shot through with the occasional fuchsia and ruby red.  

His signature use of volume was evident from the start in complex, geometric knits contrasted with slim, sleek lines of the pencil skirt and included playful details like bows at the neck.

 

This softened later in the show to include voluminous, billowing georgette dresses that floated down the catwalk summing up his dark romantic vision. But the most exhilarating aspect of Aksu’s AW collection is his first major foray into print. Using a cornucopia of influences from old fabrics to 50s wallpaper samples, the resulting baroque-tinged prints really stole the show. The practice of repeating the same pattern through different textures was intended to conjure memories of children’s potato prints – resulting a perfect harmony of innocence and strength.

 

Images by: Katy Davies

Posted by: Amber Jane Butchart

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