Custo Barcelona FW 2011/12 Sneak Peek

In case you didn’t know Mercedes Benz Fashion Week starts next week and John Simon Daily will be there to bring you full event coverage. Today we received an email with a sneak peek at Custo Barcelona’s Fall/Winter 2011/12 Collection! We adore his creations and cannot wait for the show. Here are details about the upcoming fashion:

Inspiration for the Collection

As the start of a new decade, 2011 is a great time for renewal and change, for breaking new ground to shake up the form and content of things. Through work with textures, handmade details, a totally new colour palette and graphics that evolve but preserve their DNA, a whole new set of results is achieved in the Fall/Winter 2011/12 from Custo Barcelona.

These new proposals are extremely subtle; a return to the roots of traditional tailoring, with garments full of hand-stitched details that are a far cry from mass production. An appreciation of the handmade look, with all its little irregularities, the austere prevails over the vacuity of luxe and bling, and fabrics are reinvented at the service of the most urbanite and informal design.

The handmade-look fabrics with their irregularities, weaves and threads are sophisticated, yet conserve an air of the povera (poor),and are the basis for garments in which flaws are beautiful. The poor look is extolled and lack of ostentation becomes the real luxury.

Daytime and nighttime looks are easily distinguishable in this collection. Bright, relaxed daywear. The woman who wears these daytime garments is totally urban and is looking for something with personality for work and weekends. She is intelligent and non-conformist, but without losing sight of her sexier and more daring spirit. A real Revolution Grrrls style.

The Custo nighttime look for women is one of the strong points of the collection. Outlines feature baggy, less structured lines in which overlayering is the key. The fit is comfortable and roomy with oversize pieces a constant. Tops are wide over narrow bottoms, with the odd flare or bag.

Boho chic with unstructured flowing lines to emphasise the variety of feminine shapes.

Embroidery continues to feature strongly in the collection. Hand-embroidered details with all the beauty of irregularity, chain stitching on seams, geometric and appliqué-like, are a constant, along with a new feature: the embroidered logo. An easy, distinctive way to personalise Custo items.

The collection is divided into four themed groups:

SWEET UNIFORM

One of the sources of inspiration for this collection is a reinterpretation of the military look, put through a ‘sweet’ filter.

TEXTURE DOLL

From B-movie grunge to Camden boho and from rebel undergrads to goth Lolitas. These girls are rich kids that behave badly, unkempt, uncaring, sure of themselves and of being different.

3D

This group features the three-dimensional aspects of the graphics and the fabrics used. Few pieces transmit a message of such marked coherence and Custo personality. A language of its own, with elements designed to work autonomously, enhanced by combinations of stunning, unusual colours.

LONDON CALLING

Behind every collection is a great song, a powerful cultural fragment with a touch of the rebellious.

Exciting! Stay tuned to John Simon Daily for a full report from the show!