Inky to Fringe

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>> I'm on a thought trail…

Stop with the Tweet deck action, the vuvuzela blaring and the "Go Andy" cries that I can faintly hear from Wimbledon (the day is so arid and dry, sound is now travelling across the city in super sonic clarification…).

If I break this chain of thoughts I currently have, I may never retrieve it again given that I'm now prone to bouts of complete memory blackout.  From Liesamarie Schultz's leather appliques on sheer pieces, my thoughts turned to Emilio de la Morena's A/W 10-11 collection which was full of flocking that mimicked warped fleur-de-lis shapes or Rorschach inkblot shapes formations.  I'm going with the latter because of the symmetry seen on the panels, best seen in the piece to the left.  Inky blotty, flocky goodness aplenty here.  I like it poking out from underneath the water colour printed skirts and the chunky metallicised knits but I also love the flocking in abundance, runneth all over on the final show pieces too cascading down from the d√©collet√© to floating skirt hem.  

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Ink blots, ink blots… ah… Dion Lee's wondrous sun-drenched collection pops back up… no wait, that's too far back.

Oh that' it…Graduate Fashion Week.  I missed the East London girl but thankfully, a student took the initiative and grabbed me to their stand to check out their portfolio.  Turns out I had earmarked her collection on my "To See and Investigate" checklist with the wrong name.  So I might have checked out someone else's collection thinking I had gone a bit looney tunes.  Twas a lucky coincidence then that Holly Keepfer yanked me over to her portfolio…

Rorschach is at play of course in the waterfolour inkblot prints but in addition, spirograph patterns are also at play in the collection, which are physically created with string art.  The primary sources of inspiration was the body's sensory system and anatomy which translated itself not to knitted spinal cords (I think I saw too many collections inspired by bones this year‚Ķ) but to delicate prints strengthened by the frames of string art.

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Thought trail broken.  Now I'm onto gradiated white to blue fringe, a jacket beautifully constructed by Holly to add an unexpected element to her collection…

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…wait, the thought trail doesn't end there.  I'm getting jolts of Scott Ramsay Kyle's rainbow fringe pieces that I still love and know well…

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… which then leads me nicely back to an A/W 10-11 collection.  Cynthia Rowley's dabblings with layers of fringing.  I love it especially in rainbow format on the skirt.  Somebody must have had fun cutting into the fringing making sure that the sections of fringe had enough 'chunkiness' to them for optimum swinging power…

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Aha!  End of thought trail.  You won't get to me, vuvuzela drones!

23 comments

  5. I’ll allow you knocking the football… but don’t you dare have a pop at our only sporting star (Scottish) in Andy Murray 😀

  6. Moi: Just kidding…I quite like him (better than err…Tiger Tim anyway…)… even though I don’t think he’ll do it this year… Nadal all the way…

  19. will ink blots be the new alexander wang as far as d.i.y. goes? 🙂
    i am not crazy about the colorful fringes despite their dope color scheme – layered they might look better and not so car washy?
    that third kyle outfit (with the orange top and purple skirt) is my fave esp the tights! floral blots!

  20. Outstanding designs…madly impressed…who ever searching for style & fashion this blog is a perfect stop to get everything they would be looking for… 🙂

  22. Did you find out the name of the spirograph-amazing-spinalcord designer? I LOVE THIS X and I love stylebubble x

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