I'm slowly trying put some order into my notes and my mind at the moment, so more posts about my Russian adventures will follow once I'll be done (in the meantime, thank you so much to all the great people I met along the way and who helped arranging visits to museums, translating, interpreting and generally facilitated my visit).
Since on Friday evening I mentioned Nina Donis' Spring/Summer 2012 catwalk show during the Cycles and Seasons event, well let's look at a few designs from Nina Neretina and Donis Pouppis's Autumn/Winter 2011-12 collection before passing onto the new collection.
I saw the designs yesterday morning at the Moscow-based concept store (and cafe) Kuznetsky Most 20. This collection, mainly made with the lining material thinsulate, was inspired by fencing, uniforms and army clothes, with some references to modular construction and Louise Bourgeois thrown in.
I'm not usually into furs, but I found the coats in these images very interesting from a reconfigurable point of view since they can be unfastened and turned into a short/long sleeved jacket, providing different looks in just one design (who needs different coats when you can reconfigure one?).
Some of the concepts behind these designs - reversibility, fastenings, flat and rigid shapes that get a life once they are assembled and the wearer inhabits them made me think a lot about the creations by Italian designer and architect of fashion Nanni Strada.
I actually asked Nina about architectural inspirations and she said that, when she finished school, she was in two minds about studying fashion or architecture. I'm sure if she had chosen the latter the loss of the fashion industry would have been the gain of the architectural discipline.
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