DORHOUT MEES Fall 2016 Paris - Fashion Channel

DORHOUT MEES Fall 2016 Paris - Fashion Channel Visit and Subscribe to Fashion Channel to find out more! - http://bit.ly/1OdEd04 Visit our Shop: https://www.fashionchannel.shop The designer staged an eye-catching debut via a bold, artisanal approach to fashion. It was Esther Dorhout Mees’ seventh collection but her first in Paris. The Dutch designer said she moved to the French capital because she thought the city was a good match for her bold, artisanal approach to fashion. And she was right. The collection is inspired by natural, organic shapes, featuring animal prints and 3D textures. "The gathering of birds, and other animals alike, moving in groups as one. Their movement uncontrolled, yet feels like breathing in and out and looks like a well choreographed dance. They form bold silhouettes together and become a compact solid, only to fall apart in transparency in many different directions without ever touching. Techniques inspired on many unities forming one silhouette, like tactile 3 dimensional hand knits, together with animalistic trades like split paws, open slits on joints, so movement of a shoulder blade is accentuated when in movement. Gold earpieces accentuating the ear itself, and shiny tight arms, contrasted next to rough or woolly textures. Prints inspired by organic shapes like a flock of birds, hand woven fabrics that where woven with 6 different yarns that work together to create certain textures, in a way that the print becomes 3 dimensional,