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Showing posts with label Louise Gray. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Louise Gray. Show all posts

Sunday, 16 September 2012

NEWS| Vauxhall Launch Designer-Customised Adam Cars at LFW







As part of a collaboration with Vauxhall motors, three urban-chic Adam cars have been placed outside the Freemason's Hall. The Adam Slam, Jam and Glam versions, customised by designers Fred Butler, Louise Gray and VFS's James Small respectively have well and truly set the stage with their personalisations.

Fred Butler's design stays true to her bold aesthetic. Bright colours stand out on the sculptural and geometric additional she has placed to the front and back of the car in something she's calling “car couture”. In the creation of a net-like shell, Butler's made something “to ergonomically fit with the body's details.”

Louise Gray's re-invention of the motor displays the loud, statement approach to fashion she is known for. A colourful array of fabrics, consisting of chiffon, PVC and cotton hang over the windscreen and the back of the vehicle, whilst bright red balloons stand out just above. The designer wasn't lying when she said she wanted it to be “a celebration with a party-like feel.”

VFS's James Small's design may be a lot more subtle, but that doesn't mean it's something to miss. The stylish and luxurious print on the car ties in perfectly with the beautiful prints the London College of Fashion Menswear graduate loves. In a wrap of graphic camouflage, the black and pink print of the designer, who has showcased his S/S12 and A/W12 collections with us, is both delicate and detailed.

Set to launch in February of next year, Vauxhall's Adam car, with over one million different combinations available makes for a vehicle perfect for the customer. The three fashion forward designs will remain outside our Freemason's Hall for the duration of Fashion Week and 'Adam Journeys', a film on the design process will be screened on the 18th.

Text by Josh Walker (@josh_walker_)
Photographs by Hannah Wilson

Monday, 10 September 2012

NEWS| Vauxhall announces collaboration with designers Fred Butler, James Small, and Louise Gray



In a collaboration with Vauxhall, designers Fred Butler, Louise Gray and VFS designer, James Small have been put well and truly in the driver's seat. With the help of their professional mentors, the trio have taken to the motor over mannequin and personalised their own Adam car before it's 2013 UK launch. 
With Butler being joined by A Shaded View of Fashion's Diane Pernet, Gray by stylist Richard Sloan and Small by Louis Vuitton menswear Creative Director, Kim Jones, it's a collaboration with serious creative-clout. 
Taking to the challenge hands-on, the finished products reflect and embody the designers' core aesthetics, and will be on show side-by-side the sartorial-showcase taking place with us in Freemason's this fashion week.
'Adam Journeys'- an insightful film on the design process- created by Thomas Giddings, will be screened on the 18th.

By Josh Walker (@josh_walker_)

Tuesday, 3 April 2012

COLLECTIONS| VFS Press Day Picks at Goodley PR



Leautton Postle AW12



Louise Gray AW12



Krystoff Strozyna AW12

Long-time friends, and design-partners Sam Leutton and Jenny Postle's second collection sat between fellow VFS designers, Krystof Stroznya and Louise Gray in the Goodley PR showroom; and we couldn't walk away without capturing the pieces' details to fully showcase the duo's craft-led knitwear. Leutton Postle's multiplicitous, reverse applique knits hung at home in the showroom's sun-lit space; light hitting every facet of the overlaid metallic patchwork, adding character to the pieces' offbeat, peeping faces. 

A half-turn to the right and Louise Gray's equally textured, bright pieces hung; this time letting embellishments and patterned glitter brocade do the talking. Blocked duo-chrome "Quick Response" prints with raw-finished edges called out the punk beneath the opulent-guise, but kept the collection feminine through form.

"Feminine" would be the choice-word for Strozyna's collection- as well as "strong" with the collection's figure enhancing silhouette, in darker hues contrasting to the Leutton Postle and Grey designs either side. Fabrics were less dense, but no less bold, considering the collection's clean-lines, and strong shoulders. 

Working with lighter fabrics, Strozyna's pieces showcased a controlled fluidity that moved only to trace the curvature of the woman within it proving Goodley's showcase of works to be full of impact; however that impact manifests...

This is only our first look to the coming season at the Autumn/Winter press days, have we got you looking forward to the rest...?

Images and text by Sara McAlpine
Follow her @sara_mcalpine