MFP-MariaFrancescaPepe AW1011 Collection “In the Woods”
Womenswear and Accessories
New Gen Presentation at London Fashion Wee
20th February 2010
Fall / Winter 10/11 Video: click here
Photographer: Jonas Bresnan
Stylist: Vanessa Coyle
Make Up: Georgina Graham
Hair: Rafael Sally
Model: Ali Lagarde
Leather, Fur, Hard Metal, Blood, Crosses, Skin, Teeth, Scars, Belts and Eroticism are all components of MariaFrancescaPepes’ new season dark aesthetic enhanced by corset-shaped dresses, the focus on the décolleté and the transparencies of a tough femininity.
The strong accent on textures and luxury materials are a distinctive signature of MFP’s r-t-w: Wolf-fur textured velvet, stretchy wrinkled leather, grey long haired hide, chunky jacquard, ‘scars’ printed skin-tight silk georgette, angora wool and bondage jersey. The colours fade from deep blacks to dark burgundy and skin tones. The jewellery is an inner component of the clothing, as with MFP’s continuing jewellery-wear concept. Chains for trousers, necklaces define the edges of tailored jackets and plated brass crosses stud the georgette as embroidery. A multitude of belts buckled with metal vampire’s teeth, fall from the back of corsets as tails.
The silhouette remains MFP signature minimal, with a strong accent on the shoulders balanced by fourties knee length of hems. Biker and punkish references, MJ’s eighties Bad album mixed with the refined Italian tailoring tradition results in easy to wear volumes with a strong edge. The leather jacket becomes a body suit and the blazer a dress. The addition of a second draped panel on top of a jacket or a dress redesigns the silhouette creating a lighting contrast between the shiny and matt materials.
Statement jewellery pieces in the shape of 3D crosses and teeth complete the collection next to MFP’s infamous Tubulars reinvented this season in a sprayed pop-trash effect as if stained by a spill of blood.
MFP-MariaFrancescaPepe’s Autumn Winter 1011 collection explores the state of transition from human to animal, from life to death and vice versa as a condition of beauty. The gothic references are mixed with a conceptual approach to fashion, where the thrill of a sudden metamorphosis fades the definition of the silhouettes and the ornaments.
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