As soon as I clicked onto Swagga and Soul's website, that M.I.A. Paper Planes intro very promptly popped into my head and I was almost imagining the site had that song as background music. No, that was just my internal stereo blaring that one out.
Designer Nina Hopkins has created her leather-based label Swagga and Soul to debut for A/W 09 giving us all the expected leather separates that one would ever need. Save for a leather jumpsuit… Stefano Pilati is slowly convincing me that it's NOT the most ludicrous idea in the world. Oh and leather shorts, which have been fulfilled by the costume lederhosen I bought at the Angels sale that have served me well. So, aside from those items, you have yer' jacket in a few variations, decorated with lacing and ruffles as well as the classic motorcycle shape. You have yer shorty short skirt that is deliberately streetwalker-esque. Yer tight leather trews for those days when you cry with gratitude that you can fit into them and thus you get the happy pill buzz all day long. My favourite piece though are the looser fit trews that come up high and are also slightly cropped… leather as loose as comfy as can be. It helps immensely that the leather Nina has used has been treated to look softened up and distressed in the least offensive way, as opposed to being sandblasted or injected with artificial looking wrinkles.
Me thinks there will be an online store sometime soon and perhaps then they'll consider a soundtrack for leather browsing… "Swagger like us, swagger like us…."
Ooooh I love the skirt!
Oh my God I MUST HAVE THOSE PANTS!
That skirt has stolen my heart …
Very feminine and sexy detailing, “Paper Planes” is swimming round my head too now!
oooo, love all this! the detailing is very cool. i think i *need* those pants….
leather seems to be a new trend for fall and winter. love the structure and powerful shape.
I think the last jacket is my favourite.
The pants pictured here are amazing! I still want a skinny pair though . . .
The leather looks gorgeously soft…I want to nuzzle it. Gosh that sounded a bit too wrong…
the last jacket looks nice, looooove your blog!
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I like the poncho.
Must have the fringed leather jacket and possibly, even the skirt! Loving it! XO
Those are beautiful! If only my sewing machine can deal with leather…
-meream
WANT the high-waisted pants!
I love looking at black leather even though if I don it I look like a dork. Great pieces I can only admire. I did have a leather skirt like that once – I can do those.
great pieces!
Wow! I love all these pieces to death (: They’re all amazing
I am so in love with black leather right now.. I love it all!!
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great post 🙂
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I really need to stop looking at clothes online cause I want to get them all! 😉
I just have to have that skirt and I loved the 2nd jacket with the ruffles! 🙂 So cute!
these are all SO HOT
The skirt looks sexy and also the jacket.. I love those lether items.
-mikee-