If there are made up stage names for fashion designers, Silvina Maestro could be a strong contender. Behind the showy name though is an even showier background. A graduate of Central Saint Martins, Ms. Maestro has worked for Riccardo Tisci at Givenchy designing all the RTW jersey pieces. She has also worked for Nicholas Kirkwood, Emilio de la Morena, Boudicca and Alexander McQueen.
The maestro has come forth with her first core and small collection for A/W 10-11 entitled "Alba Lux" which has been inspired by Flemish still life paintings and 'vanitas'. To be honest, the press release blurb does go into very very lofty climes with bits like "Possessions and knowledge are felt as ultimately futile as all is lost with inevitable death" and "The physical and the metal-physical, the body and the soul, the past and the present being explored by the designer."
I'm not sure whether any of those things are actually being conveyed with the clothes but what I do see are some interesting plays with opacity and a convergence of two different garments in one. The half and half idea is given a very languid and sensual feeling and if you strip back the silk organza mannequin coverings, there's quite a stark statement made with the lines in the dresses.
I loveeeeeeee the 2nd one 🙂
The head coverings are all very Leigh Bowery…
Effing gorgeous!
the shoes in the 3rd one are impeccable
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me not likey!
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Wow, they are amazing! I love the third one.
Carmen.xx.
It’s so comme des garcons with the sheer face things!, and I love the dresses!
Yes yes,… Comme, Leigh as well as little elements from where Maestro used to work….not wholly original I would say but an interesting debut I think…
love this pict
i like it, look´s like a fun way to “dress up”, enjoy the whites dresses beacuse i´m not a fan of show too much skins over there
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All are great, but my favorite is the third…
xx Emily
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Yuck… Sorry but I think she is one of the worst designers I’ve seen in a long time. Her pieces look like something a 12 year old would put together.
Second one would be a lot nicer without the huge golden bow…
It’s a statement on how human existence is about being always in transition. The pieces seem to be on the move from incomplete to complete. Am I reading too much into the clothes?
I do think she is creative but I somehow feel that these pieces still need to be developed more somehow…
what an artistic and cool blog you have, I really admire your work!
/Swedish girl, Julia
great designer! i’m almost fan! I’m so impressed about his work! the side of convergence two different garments and fabrics. that the half and half of two really different thinks is impressed me!
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I LOVE IT, BUT IT SEEMS SINCE MICHAEL VAN DER HAM DID THE MIXING FABRICS, EVERYONE JUMPED ON THE THE BAND WAGON GUY!
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Love these! I can really imagine you in the sheer trousers in the first image.
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x
Great designs.
well,i dont personally like it, and i think it doesnt ressemble van der ham´s work at all, if ” mixing fabrics ” makes it similar, then its similar to hundreds of garments and collections by hundreds of designers.
Haha…Riccardo Tisci, Nicholas Kirkwood, Emilio de la Morena, Boudicca and Alexander McQueen – that’s some CV! Makes it all the more surprising that I don’t really like this collection, considering how much I love those other designers. It seems quite cold and disconnected. However, I really love the folded-down black leather boots, although I guess I could get those at Rick Owens or MMM etc etc
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Duck