With Le Photographe's SS15 collection fresh off the catwalk, we caught up with founder Christian Beales to get his thoughts on showing at Fashion Scout and find out more about the inspirations behind his collection.
What has inspired your SS15 collection?
We
were interested in a variety of things. We started looking at
embroidery and surface design to see what we could do with them. We
looked at manipulating fabric within the embroidery but also in
developing the silhouette so I think that we were very free in how we
approached it. Flowers were a simple idea that we took to almost knit
this season's collection together. We wanted to keep it simple because
we really wanted to explore a variety of things and see where our
handwriting was going. This is essentially our first proper season so
we just wanted to see how things happened naturally.
How
did you decide upon a colour palette for your collection?
Very
organic - you just throw it all up in the air to see what jumps out at
you. We were very conscious of not using too much black so we decided
that white was the real strong element here so that was the backbone
of the palette. Then we wanted to have a soft colour and a strong
colour so we've got the lemon and the fuchsia which was the
interspersed with black so
it was a four colour palette and then we added some other colours to
enrich it.
How
did you find the process of showing your work in the form of a
presentation?
It
is just a great learning curve. The tough thing about a presentation
is actually presenting in a static way and I think that was something
which I really grappled with at first but developing the mannequins
as I did I think we've got somewhere with that.
What
do you think of Fashion Scout as a platform for progression?
Phenomenal.
You can't describe it. It has been a dream. I never thought that it
would ever get to this level but Fashion Scout lifts you up to a
point where you really think that you can go for it and so we thought
this is an opportunity and we are going to go for it and so we have
and it has been great.
By Charlotte
Muscat, (@CharlotteLM9).
Photograph by Hugo Nogueira