EDELINE LEE Spring Summer 2018 Film

LONDON FASHION WEEK 17 SEPTEMBER 2018 9:30AM - 11:30PM BRITISH FASHION COUNCIL SHOWSPACE Spring Summer 2018 builds on EDELINE LEE's previous body of work, consistently exploring what ti means to be a woman and how to dress this woman. This season, Edeline travelled to the New Mexican badlands and was inspired by the idea of feminine courage. "I imagined Georgia O'Keeffe after her heartbreak and subsequent nervous breakdown, when she first encountered that powerful landscape and realised firstly, that she had found her place in the world and secondly, that this was what she was meant to paint for the rest of her life She was an archetypal woman, which is why she and her work retains such a compelling influence: the woman artist courageously alone, teaching herself to drive, ripping out the back seats of her Model T so that she could fit her easels into the car, braving the unforgiving landscape to pick up stones and animal bones bleached by the stark New Mexican sunlight, and climbing up a ladder onto the roof of her adobe house to sleep under the stars each night. Georgia O'Keeffe said: I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do. In this collection I wanted to connect to the vulnerability and the strength at the core of every woman." Edeline has worked with the technique of twisting ties and knots this season, playfully juxtaposing and exaggerating them onto her signature feminine shapes in F