Fashion
Mary Katrantzou - London Spring/Summer 2010
Following her use of vintage perfume bottles as the foundation for her prints last season, textile and fashion designer Mary Katrantzou took her affinity with glass further for SS10. This time she worked with glass artist Peter Layton, taking inspiration from the pigment that forms abstract, organic patterns in the glass as he blows it. Her method is to develop these digitally into prints on her range of short, playful and young dresses; and they are unique. Along with dramatic – and very successful – jewellery by Layton, she added round CRYSTALLIZED™ – Swarovski Elements, creating a rainbow of colours in hot fix application. ‘There a lot about sheen in this collection,’ explains Katrantzou, ‘and the crystal is part of that.’ Colours include opalescent Aurora Borealis stones, black jet and transparents in Caribbean blue opal, blue zircon satin, white opal, topaz, light Siam satin, fire Opal, crystal Metallic blue and burgundy. ‘I wanted an explosion of colour,’ she adds, ‘with an illusion of three dimensionality given by the prints and the crystals. It brings a depth and a sparkle to the prints, catching the eye with their iridescence.’
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