Urban Fairy

I vastly prefer lookbook images to catwalk images as a designer can really inject ‘something more’ about their vision for their collection whereas catwalk images seem to all merge into one after looking at one too many blank, staring walking model.  Quite often, I end up loving a collection more when I see the lookbook images because if I didn’t ‘get it’ the first time round, the images usually thud through my thick numbskull.  This certainly applies to this collection… 

Tillman Lauterbach is a designer I’ve been on a lookout for, in search of a UK stockist.  Lauterbach has been bumped around Europe a bit being born in Germany and theN moving back and forth between Spain, Switzerland and Germany, finally settling in Paris to study in ESMOD and then launch his collection for AW06.  I think there is an ease/natural-ness to his latest SS08 collection that mixes up easy to wear jersey pieces, subtle prints, girly frou frou and casual-ness perfectly.  The photos would give the impression that the clothes are a little delicate or precious but I think when you look closely, it’s more resiliant than one would think.  Urban fairy is how I would describe a wearer of this collection especially with regards to the sheer jersey pieces and those tights seeped with blue at the top (Nina Ricci’s resort collection has got me going all starry-eyed over white tights dip-dyed with blue…) and of course, it does help that the girl looks like she wears everything with a Cl√©mence Po√©sy-like ease.   

13 comments

  1. Catwalk images tend to only give you an idea of how the clothes will look on you if you walk in a straight line, turn, then walk back in the same straight line. I wish more companies would publish lookbooks with people simply wearing their clothes, sitting and reading, etc.
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  3. how in the world do you find all these designers? I love this collection and the photos are gorgeous!

  5. The first, second and last pics are great!!
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  10. the girl in the photos really is cl√©mence po√©sy-like, and that’s what I like about her in particular, because I like cl√©mence po√©sy…

  12. Ah… like most of my fave labels…. except I didn’t see any Lauterbach last time I was there…must email Anthony the manager and ask…

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