Emerging Fervour

I saw Simon Ekrelius during LFW at On|Off and had to get in touch with him for a piece on his latest collection. His AW 2010 women S T A R D U S T collection has been labeled an ‘architectural odyssey’ at On|Off…impressive

Stark cut silhouettes of textured silks. New collection features ‘star buy’ awarded signature pieces, strong tailoring and the expressive prints are what make this collection.

Materials used for this collection are a combination between silk marocaine, silk organza, yarn silk and signature prints designed on silk interlock and a couple of others.

To visit Simon’s website, go to www.simonekrelius.com or you can contact him on sales@simonekrelius.com

We met Rik and Kim from 21DGRS – 21 degrees at the Margin tradeshow event we went to. The both live in Bali and use locally sourced material to create these pieces. Have a look at their latest collection…I’m especially into these sequin trousers.

21dgrs was born in late 2009 as the brainchild of designers Kim Krismann and Rik Fiddicke as an extension of their already existing surf and streetwear label Faith21. Before Bali, the both of the lived and worked in Germany, Amsterdam and Cape Town, where they finally settled in the island off Indonesia.

Of their label, they say

“the first 21dgrs flagshipstore opened its doors on Bali in December 2009. Being part of a young travelling generation, we started 21dgrs as a core label to convey our own lifestyle through unique and intelligent products. Todays travelling generation seems to be more in control of their careers and choice of lifestyle. The genre of people has a strong entrepreneurial drive, lust for adventure and the believe in this lifestyle is the motor behind 21dgrs. Therefore 21dgrs promotes confidence, personal stength and creativity”

The last of Saturday’s catwalks, Jacob Kimmie’s show had everyone sitting up and frantically snapping away at their cameras regardless of how cold and somewhat bedraggled this hardcore audience were feeling!

There couldn’t have been a better setting for this “ritual dressing and modern temples” inspired collection than the Freemasons HQ, and Jacob Kimmie is certainly one to watch…

The invite looked like a rough briefing sheet for the show, with details on the inspiration – ritual dressing, fabrics – feathers, wool, leather, silhouette and music – American Gospel house and minimalist tribal dance.

The modern Aztec, Inca temples and religious rituals inspiration have been the basis for Kimmie to create a mood of enlightenment and spirituality. He’s also focused on stripping away frivolity to show adornment in a primitive way resulting in a primal couture-like collection. The glamour just oozes from this collection – we love it!

For press enquiries, contact Felicities showroom on info@felicities.co.uk

www.jacobkimmie.com

The Lako Bukia catwalk followed the running theme of multi-purpose wear with a clever concept of using very long zips over key seams in order to create a different look when unzipped. Each model walked out first with the zips closed and then again with them open. It took me a couple of models to realise this was happening; the transformation on some pieces being more dramatic than others. Good concept and the long white dress was beautiful.

Words from the label:
“The concept behind this second collection from Lako Bukia is emotions and the divide between positive, kind emotions and the darker, evil side. Using colour, shape and textiles to represent these diverse elements of one’s emotional characteristics Lako Bukia has created a strong, innovative collection.

The monochrome palette delineates the separate emotions – expressed through a set of white shirts against the darker black dresses, trousers and skirts. Using materials of different textures the collection also incorporates a range of fabrics including wools for the sharper forms and accents of silks to soften the shapes. ”

It’s fantastic that we have fabulous photographer friends who help us out with these amazing catwalks we were invited to. We went to the Ada Zanditon show on Tuesday Feb 23rd, and I took my friend Iman with me. She takes really good photos and has one of those fancy Nikon cameras…proper professional we are.

After waiting around in a massive 3-columned queue for about an hour, we finally moved and slowly creeped towards the doors to the huge room. A blessing in disguise, the back row gave Iman the opportunity to clamber onto the ledge behind her and take some nice shots. You can take a look at Flickr for lots more photographs of the show.

Please note: No one was injured as a result of taking these photographs

I really like the jackets, I like the whole over-sized idea and a lot of my favourite jackets are BIG. I also love the accents of bright colours – it’s such a refreshing thing to see after the wave of darkness throughout LFW this February. Don’t get me wrong, dark is good – but colour is priceless.

Emerging Fervour were invited to see the live Harriett’s Muse photoshoot during London Fashion Week A/W 10 at the Freemasons Building on Sunday. It was pretty packed…

Unfortunately I didn’t see much as I was wedged in the middle of some pretty big photographers – luckily for us though, Mindy our photographer managed to squeeze her way to the front to take some pretty good shots of the photoshoot…Check out our favourites – as always, the rest can be seen on Flickr.

Oh look it’s Miss Anderton ∨

For more pictures visit our Flickr.

A little about Harriett’s Muse:

Famed for its sensuous yet traditional tailored corsets and extravagant party frocks, Harriet’s muse, born from the mischievous minds of Cheryl and Craig, encapsulates alluring fabrics with thespian inspiration to create a collection fit for any ball.

Remember kids, guns aren’t cool – but bullets dangling round your neck look pretty hot. I got given some amazing samples from Love Bullets and wore this one to the Margin streetwear event yesterday (more on that soon).

30mm Silver Plated Clear Crystal £35 ∨

I loved it, mainly because of the message behind it…making something deadly into something beautiful that sends messages of love and peace. There are a few variations of the Love Bullet, check them out in the online store, but this one is my absolute favourite:

30mm Gold Plated Black Crystal £40 ∨

Kristian Aadnevik is 32, he’s Norwegian and he’s super-talented. After working for Harrods International, Charles Jourdan and Alexander McQueen, he decided to set up his own label in 2004. Take a peek at some of his masterpieces…

S/S 2009

His label is often described as gloomy, opulent and glamorous…another one of London’s ‘next big thing’. Educated at the Royal College of Art in London, Kristian combines the technical knowledge of a skilled couturier with the charm of a screenwriter. Undecided between fairytale and horror, he explains: “For me every collection is like a film starring the heroines I dress; plots and stories change, but my muse remains the same, she is the protagonists who evolves and explores life.”

AW 08-09

For a full list of stockists, email info@kristianaadnevik.com. Visit Kristian’s site at www.kristianaadnevik.com for the rest of his collections.

A product of West Africa, I love anything to do with the place, and fashion is no exception….check out my piece on Senegal if you missed it; but this isn’t about a white chick in African dress, it’s about Emeka Alams, the brains behind Gold Coast Trading co, formerly known as 21MC. Art and creativity has been in his blood since he can remember. When you have so much passion for something, success is just an inevitable chapter.

Residing between Abidjan and the States, romanticising about his African roots is what makes his label what it is today. Mixing West Africa’s bright colours, patterns and print into versatile and familiar pieces just make me fall in love with the guy.

At school I was really into conceptual art…but that was because I was really shit at the detailed stuff. However, Jo Cope is different…her mix of detailed conceptual stuff is A* work, maybe a little strange too, but hey…it’s unique. Check it out…

For the rest, visit Jo’s site at www.jocope.com

Originally studying fashion design, Cope became aware of the limitations she had with the normal routes of fashion and felt pretty restricted by them as you can clearly see so she decided to go the conceptual route. She also uses fashion as an unlikely tool to create visual metaphors for biblical text. Starting many of her concepts from the same reference point she generates new forms of delivery, contrasting the fiscal with the non fiscal.

One example would be her ongoing translations of the Holy trinity seen in garment, film and accessory form. The spiritual significance of the number 3 is also repeated in differing ways throughout her work. Here’s one example I found of the Holy Trinity…