I have so much LFW-related stuff to talk up that it is a good thing that Milan is underway (where I have nothing to get super excited about save for maybe Jean Pierre Braganza, Prada and err.... Dolce!). It's a matter of buying some posting time and playing catch-up before I'm off to Paris on Wednesday so be prepared for a trail of nonsensical, illogical mode of post-LFW posting. On the menswear day, I was actually finally invigorated. Probably because my brain had finally woken up from post-New York stupor and so I was back to ooh-ing and aah-ing over stuff even though it was menswear.
Sibling's knitwear however is a democratic vision - these are pieces fit for both sexes and I think they've pulled out their best collection despite this being only their third one. I love this warped take on the Breton striped jumper where they have collaborated with artist Noah Scalin (of askulladay.com) to get this skull patternation into the stripes just right.
Look into my stripes... you shall be hypnotised...
Their 'ratus' sweater (they had beaded rats running all over the neckline in the last two collections) becomes more subtle with this black knitted lace effect...
My quest for the perfect vintage English cricket sweater pretty much ended when I saw this sequinned version... the cream sequinns going in the grain of the cable knit is amazing in person!
Then the final pièce de résistance... this BEAUOOOOOOOTIFUL knitted denim jacket. Yes, entirely knitted complete with distressed areas that were worked into the pattern. I'm failing miserably in figuring out how they did this on a machine. This isn't like those wack job attempts of 'distressed' denim effects on jeans where you have stooopid holes and scuff marks on the bum. Nope, the charm in this jacket is the fact that it's knitted. I thought I swooned enough when I saw the knitted leather biker jacket in their last collection but this actually made me nuzzle my head into the knit...
Sadly though, I think it costs an arm and a leg (and rightly so considering the amount of work gone into it...) but that's what this fashion malarky thing is about - wanting things you can't have... *blub blub blub*...
