Mary Katrantzou Fall / Winter 2015

LONDON — Inversion quite literally took center stage, the runway to be exact, Sunday evening at Lindley Hall where Mary Katrantzou presented her Fall 2015 women’s collection. The surface of the runway was comprised of pink sound insulation foam made from a field of repeating polyhedrons. The convex-concave surface performed the very sort of inversion Katrantzou celebrated throughout her collection in a bold effort to challenge “notions of status, value and good taste.” Katrantzou’s use of the runway to extend the themes of her collections is of course not without precedent — last season’s exploration of tectonic plates took place over a runway made of shredded rubber. Realizing these powerful dichotomies were Erika Wall, Roxy, Maja Salamon, Hedvig Palm, and Yuan Bo Chao...on a runway made of pink foam. Never change, London Fashion Week, never ever. Credits include: Client, Mary Katrantzou; Collection, Women’s Ready-To-Wear Fall / Winter 2015; Clothing design, Mary Katrantzou; Styling, Panos Yiapanis; Hair, Syd Hayes at Premier Hair and Makeup using L’Oréal Paris Styling; Makeup, Val Garland and the M∙A∙C Pro Team; Manicure, Marian Newman for M∙A∙C; Direction, Alexandre de Betak; Production, Bureau Betak; Casting, Piergiorgio Del Moro; Video, Damien Neva.