EDELINE LEE Spring Summer 2013 Film

LONDON FASHION WEEK 17 SEPTEMBER 2012 3PM - 6PM ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY Guests led into the Royal Geographical Society’s Council Room were transported into an intimate mise-en-scene. Ten models performed a quiet choreography directed by filmmaker Zeina Durra. They poured over antique maps on the mahogany boardroom table with ebony magnifying glasses, one surveyed out the window with a pair of binoculars, and another slowly measured distances on the precious 1851 World Exhibition globes in the corner. The only sound was the slow ticking of a metronome and the jangle of the antique African brass coils piled high on the models’ arms. At the ding of a triangle, the models turned to face the door signalling the end of the two minute performance. “I wanted it to feel as if you had walked into surreal Vermeer painting- something still and intimate and filled with beautiful light” said the designer. Edeline Lee was inspired by “the spirit, strength, and fragile beauty” of the bohemian intelligentsia of the 1930s. Women like Vita Sackville-West, Virginia Woolf, Nancy Cunard, Claude Cahun and the Garman sisters who were artists and writers whilst also being the lovers and inspiration for many of the artists of their time. Models wore heavy “Shagreen” textured silk in Jade Green and Cream, Payne’s Navy and Stone Cotton Twill with panels in Indigo waxed Cotton, Shark Black Cotton Raffia and a graphic French tweed. An Italian Silk Georgette was in three variations: Persian Blue, C