Latvian designers Mārīte Mastiņa and Rolands Pēterkops from the Mareunrol’s duo appeared in this blog a couple of times, first last December after an interview I did with Rolands came out on Dazed Digital and, more recently, in March when they sent me via email new images of their "Private Detective" collection.
Well, a third blog is due today as they won the L’Oréal Grand Prize and the 1.2.3. prize at the 24th edition of the Hyères International Fashion and Photography Festival.
Here they are pictured with Diane Pernet, who's been a sort of mentor for them in the last few months, in Rome where “Mareunrol’s Private Detective” by Latvian film director Kristīne Kursiša was presented at the end of January during a reduced version of the film festival A Shaded View on Fashion Film. At Hyères Mārīte and Rolands presented beige and dark brown trench coats with multiple folds and pleats, their by now iconic yellow housewife dress (also featured in Kursiša’s film) and a selection of deconstructed men's coats and jackets, all inspired by film noir and gangster and detective stories.
Belgian menswear designer Simon-Pierre Toussaint won with his cocooning duvet-like padded capes, trench coats lined with star map printed fabric and wooden armours the public prize and shared the Swarovski Prize with Norwegian Harald Lunde Helgesen, who created a menswear collection inspired by archaeology and archaeologists' assistants, litmus paper and colour separation. The Photography Grand Prize went instead to Swiss Linus Bill for his collages of surreally ordinary images.
Congratulations to all the finalists and winners and good luck on their future endeavours!
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