I’m fascinated with how artistic fashion designers are – the choice of fabrics, patterns and sewing techniques – especially when the designer is just about as charming as his designs, IMHO that is.
Of all the young talents interviewed by Style.com so far, Marios Schwab (both looks and designs) caught my attention.
Photo credit: Jaja Hargreaves / julystars.blogspot.com
“I’m preoccupied with the topography of the body,” Marios Schwab said at his Dalston studio a few days before his Fall show. “I look at clothes in a much more graphic sense – what you place and where you place it.”
According to Style.com, Schwab got his inspirations for the season range from the Austrian architect Adolf Loos (who famously wrote that ornamentation slows down culture) to the famous inscription at the Temple of Delphi, “Nothing in excess.” That would somewhat explain the understated touches he made to his apparel.
As you can see, Schwab plays with inspirations from pearls to a laughing Marilyn Monroe draped in a necklace. “It’s the opposite of all this, no?” the designer laughs. “I wanted to mix the gentleman’s brogue with something very feminine, cold, and distant like pearls.”
Throughout the collection, rows of Swarovski faux pearls are inserted into seams, so the pearls are only half-exposed, or “caught” in the draping of a loden wool dress, like necklaces.
[Source: Style.com]
