>> First off, apologies if the GFW blogging has been a bit random and unorganised. Rather than covering every show and clogging up your page with tons of images, I'd prefer to be a bit more selective and post the stuff that is making my heart go dush dush dush. Speakign of dush dush dush music, soundtrack choices at shows have been veering towards the hardcore... or of the Kitsune ilk... or ubiquitous M.I.A... still, got my dose of Passion Pit at the Nottingham Trent show this morning so I'm at ease...
Anyway, there's a bit of a summer bias here as I'm particularly attracted to this muted palette of softy softy pastels but made complicated and less saccharine by the construction, the materials used and the overall mood created, subverting connontations of our associations with colours like BABY blue or CANDY pink... nothing baby or candy-like about any of these collections...
Alice McColm from Middlesex (strictly not part of the GFW schedule as they showed last week...) showed a knitwear collection that had delicate features of all a sugary lady who lunches but with the different knitwear techniques achieved something quite ethereal... the lilac faux fur jacket and the lattice sleeves is especially mesmerising...
Yun Lin from Kingston took foody colours (mocha, mint, toffee... Devon cream?) and made soft structures out of them, warping trenches, adding rounded shoulders and created a serene yet strong collection... definitely one of the highlights from the show that I still have tons to write about...
This morning, at Salford University Gemma Clements completely overturned the idea of Liberty-print clad Stepfrod wives and produced a collection both sweet and sinister... makes me look at my Liberty print Nikes in a completely different light after seeing these masked-up models. The contradiction between tight catsuit and the Liberty print is also a strange one I've yet to see a designer explore... the innocecse of pastels have defintiely been stripped away...
