Surfer girl x tribal goddess x Oscar

My absolute favourite looks from NY fashion week - I am inspired by the energy, the vibe and obviously the aesthetic - new and fresh and oh sooo cool.

Proenza Schouler's surfer chic is awesome - it's way cool yet makes you smile as you think back about those days skating, hanging out and surfing - more innocent days.  Redefined sexy cool surfer chic out on the town. 

tie-dyed rash vest with prom skirt (I love)

slinky long board-shorts, a tee and smoking

tie dyed little dress

Rodarte's highly charged primitivism - so sexy it hurts - raw yet oddly refined - a fantastical journey of tribal goddesses.  A mysterious, torn, lost and gothic world.  The clothes themselves genius - the love and care that has been put into tearing, shredding, burning - the very design.

  

Rodarte shredded gown

a slinky version

And of course there is Oscar de la Renta one of the godfathers of American fashion - a bit of the old school - the other end of the spectrum. That classic upper east side aesthetic which is his.  Yes, of course there are the gowns, but this look for me is what defines elgance - refined and so subtle. A modern classic? or a classic made modern?

Oscar's off the shoulder elegance

Astronauts in Africa s/s 10

Before leaving nsha I started what was to be my last collection, Astronauts in Africa S/S 2010  . . . the collection was never materialised and these moodboards have become inspiration for other things for me - for mood and colours, for destinations and new projects. . .

I centred the collection around the idea of the nomadic traveller - literally as well as figuratively - hence vast the open space of the desert and astronauts in space - the two coming together in the geometry of Timbuktu, the sculptures of Not Vital in the desert and the works of Judd at the Cinnati Foundation in Marfa, Texas (and at the time I made the board the work of one of his protege's Baertling).  I was inspired how the future and minimalism can find such a fitting home in the desert as well as the way of life of the Touregs and the idea of freedom.  

My three dream destinations contained in the content of these boards - Mali with Timbuktu and the dessert of Essakane, the pilgrimage to Marfa stopping on the way at Walter de Maria's Lightning Field and Turrell's Roden Crater and space.  Something about desert and barren land and the idea of a hidden oasis really hypnotised me.

Light natural ethereal colours with accents of primary colours and iridescent shimmers, flowing simple lines, sharp edges and the freedom to move.