Offering rich contrast to the Fall 14 season’s graphic trend, a compelling nature-inspired storyline is weaving its way through the collections.
Leading the charge was Burberry Prorsum with its to-die-for Bloomsbury Set-inspired florals, recalling vintage wallpapers, in London. Offering a more baroque mood the same week, Erdem presented some impressive workmanship, best executed in a chinoiserie-inspired black mini dress covered in exotic embroidered flowers and lace appliqués.
Birds of all variety have fluttered across the New York, London and Milan collections so far. Alberta Ferretti earlier this week showcased beautiful craft in her woodland-inspired collection that was filled with feathered friends depicted in prints and embroideries. Most breathtaking were the line’s bird plume dresses, with one in particular covered in glossy black feathers with a bed of blue and emerald peacock feathers interwoven on its skirt.
Showing off their colors, meanwhile, were two embroidered parrots captured in flight on an angular cropped black cape in Marchesa Voyage’s collection in New York, which added a note of exoticism. In London, Giles opened his show with a trio of embroidered humming birds that served as one of the show’s leitmotifs, surfacing on skirts and tuxedo jackets, or patterning silk dresses. A sequin orchid motif surfaced on cocktail dresses later down the line, its form echoed in their folds, with white beetles crawling up another style. Those, along with the line’s thistle-print dress, sat more comfortably within the designer’s macabre-edge universe.
(l-r) Fall 2014 looks from Burberry Prorsum, Marchesa Voyage and Giles
(l-r)Getty Images, Courtesy Marchesa, Getty Images
