The Roman Catholic calendar celebrates today two young women and martyrs, Saint Perpetua and Saint Felicity.
In the iconography representing them Perpetua, who was a noblewoman, is usually portrayed with a cap-like headdress covered in stones and pearls, while Felicity, her servant, wears more modest garments and a veil on her head.
In some images showing the two martyrs, the pearls on Perpetua's cap are represented as rows of dots.
Even though in yesterday's post we have analysed the real inspirations behind Comme des Garçons's A/W 18 collection, some of the leopard spotted hairstyles (that in some cases evoked Princess Leia…) almost made you think to the representations of Perpetua's headdress.
A silvery headstyle with glittery fake hair plastered on the model's head in the same collection seemed instead to be reminiscent of one of those beautiful Fayum mummy portraits from the 2nd century A.D.
If you like religious inspirations, you may find some in the lookbook for Sybilla's A/W 18 collection.
Spanish designer Sybilla Sorondo is finally back, but, rather than coming up with a long and complex collection, she opted for deluxe minimalism, creating a series of wardrobe staples in cashmere.
The results – comprising ultra-light cozy sweaters, culottes, draped dresses, suits and sculptural coats with some architectural references – are pretty wearable.
The palette and the draped motifs may actually come from Francisco de Zurbarán, but some of the poses of the lookbook call to mind religious icons and portraits of the Virgin Mary.
Sybilla has been making her new designs with cashmere from Mongolia and has developed a new fiber from llama hair with a producer in north Argentina. You're right, cashmere may not be so humble and linked to religion, but her aim and objective to try and tell through her new designs the stories of the manufacturers and producers behind her collection is definitely honourable and shows some true devotion.
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