...harsh lines, strong structures and heaviness is where we're supposedly heading for so something to soften up the agenda is intriguing. Barbara Munsel, a designer from Rotterdam though is an independent that probably doesn't really care about whether structure is in or not (in or out... a concept that I wonder is disappearing altogether...). She has attributed seasons to her collections but I think there's something in the strength of her printing techniques and the subtlety about everything that makes the season quite irrelevant. Printed tights, silk trousers and billowing tops along with the use of luxurious materials that are softly powerful; feathers, crepe de chine, silk, organic cotton...and ever so delicate with the palette too... something that you'd want to lovingly keep in some nude tissue paper (I think I've said that about one other collection other than this...) and then gently take it out before wearing, eating aptly delicate things whilst wearing it...(nothing that involves ketchup, spaghetti or soup...)...
