EDELINE LEE Autumn Winter 2014 Film

LONDON FASHION WEEK 16 FEBRUARY 2014 9:30AM-12:30PM SOMERSET HOUSE EAST WING For Autumn Winter 2014, Edeline Lee was inspired by “my teenage fantasy of New York - what I imagined that New York would be, when I finally got there. I also recently moved back to East London, after a long spell in West London. Maybe it’s the energy of the urban landscape that brought this fantasy back to me, that longing for the big city, where everything is happening.” This was also an experimental season for the designer. She worked with some grittier, urban-looking fabrics, like the white lacquered pile of a sweatshirt bonded onto neoprene, a satin felted into wool, a Yves Klein blue ostrich skin wool and laser cut cotton. Gritty - but luxurious too – all the fabrics are sourced from the finest mills in Italy and France. Edeline Lee personally cuts her own patterns, and here there was subtle experimentation with squares, circles, flaps and loops, all of which reflected back to the graphic textures in the fabrics, the laser-cut squares, looped brocades and the circular sunray pleats set on squares. The shapes are structured and feminine, but each item highlights a clever detail, or unexpected cut. The colours are white, black, pavement grey and multiple shades of blue. The shoes were white trainers, drawn over by hand in Edeline’s studio: “Remember when you were bored at school, and drew all over your shoes with a biro pen?” The presentation takes place in a series of rooms underneath the