British Designers
Burberry Prorsum Fall / Winter 2012
The Latin word “prorsum,” meaning “forwards,” was first added to the Burberry Equestrian Knight Logo in 1901. It’s an apt name for the brand’s most luxurious runway line, which under Christopher Bailey’s keen direction, consistently lives up to it’s definition— nodding to legendary tartans while showing consistently modern, punk opulence. Stylesequel quotes Bailey as saying “I’m a very down-to-earth designer in the sense that I love that mix of really classic, traditional, historical design with real fashion.” In 2001,...
read moreA Few Questions for Jonathan Saunders…
Here’s a great mini interview with British designer and 2011 British Fashion Council Fashion nominee Jonathan Saunders. What’s the inspiration behind your first pre-fall line? I usually work with a lot of color and pattern and textures and that’s kind of always been at the core of what we do in the collection. [For] Pre-fall, the silhouettes are quite feminine and soft so it’s kind of like early sixties, which feels good after spring being very bright colors – this is a good move forward. The prints are...
read moreMcQ (by Alexander McQueen): Fall/Winter 2012 Runway Review
McQ’s AW2012 line commences with sexy and authoritative Eastern-European-esque outerwear; expertly-crafted, wooly, neutral hourglasses for the McQueen woman who, even at a lower-price point, feels like a masterpiece. It’s a scientific fact that any object appearing in a lit space will have a shadow. And, I think it’s a design fact that any McQueen creation in a lit space will have a more mysterious shadow than any object around it. What is this exquisite, “savage” darkness that follows and sways around...
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