And so to Berlin, Berlin! and the work of Berlin fashion designer Alba Prat, a sculptural and breathtakingly post-post-modern voice. Her Tron-inspired collection, “Digitalized,” features …
The intricacy of the woven horsehair strands; their red dyed coloration and the tiny scale of brooch and necklace components is perhaps not surprising for a country with such a lace-making heritage.
Roberts draws inspiration from x-rays and CT scans, body-mapping and contouring the human form. For AW2011 the collection teams with accessories from Eye of the World; a collaboration between Liam Motyer [a teacher] and Hope Von Joel [a stylist]. Each wooded accessory is uniquely crafted and finished by hand in London. It is a balance where each offsets and carries the other into a seamless look.
Nine yards of unpleated linen was required to make one yard of the pleated fabric. Linen, a notoriously creasing fabric, is fairly crease resistant when smocked. The gown would likely have been quite light and very comfortable since the fiber breaths and is quite absorbent, making for a gown that is both beautiful, form fitting and comfortable.
…”Seventeenth-century lace has a voluminous character—rather than the light and airy form of later periods—reflecting an era when luxury was equated with grandeur…
The lustrous petal emenate from the central stamen, growing into large petal clusters.
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