Peter Pilotto Fall 2012
Peter Pilotto’s Christopher De Vos and Peter Pilotto continue to be
one of the bright spots on the London calendar and a runaway shows
favorite of the British press. With more collections like fall, it’s
well deserved praise. Their inspiration was Asian art and architecture.
Their lineup was sexy and bold. Even their cropped, sculpted puffer
jackets with zany prints looked body-con, which is a feat. They
channeled the bright neon lights of Japan into stripes and abstracts
printed on skin-tight t-shirts and paneled skirts. There were shades of
Nicolas in the strong attitude of the girls. The duo took the turtleneck
and turned it into a sultry velvet look for evening, its bodice a
structured lattice of straps and and cut-outs. Skinny cropped pants,
t-shirts and dresses were worked in big florals. When sleeves didn’t hug
shoulders and arms, they were pumped up.
The
same lean lines applied to evening, a gray floor-grazing look paneled
with what looked like skewed neon lighting. It was smart and provocative
and right on trend with the notion of not wearing the obvious for
evening.
To the left we see
Matthew Williamson,
the prince of prints and pattern, harnessed all those years of
understanding how to mix them into a lady-fied, grown up collection.
While it was still Williamson-fun — there was a lot of colored fur — the
collection will surely appeal to a new set of customers, while giving
his core something new to think about. He strongly messaged
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