Trager Delaney

Kim Trager an Lowell Delany are a design duo who met at London Central St Martins and launched their brand this spring.
I love this star dust photo shoot with wonderful fabrics and fabric combinations. The wonderful golden yellow velvet combined with the metallic sheen of the skirt is a luxurious happy combination.

Femke Agema I

"Elders is a vision of the world springing into life after winter. It’s inspired by the simple joy we feel in being let loose into the wild to play in an environment overflowing with possibilities. A world where you make treehouses, huts and rafts from whatever you can get your hands on. A world made to be explored, bursting with colours and textures, where the only limit is your imagination." Femke Agema

Femke Agema is an Amsterdam based fashion designer, creating collections that rub out the boundaries between fashion and art. A creative force, Femke collects ideas, materials and themes from where ever she finds them . . .  and she finds them everywhere. Femke Agema has cleverly managed to combine the practicality of  wearable (sell-able) clothes with experimental costume and concept development keeping her work exciting, challenging and wonderful.

Barbara Bologna

There is a harshness, brutality, a post apocalyptic flavour to some of the concepts of current fashion design trends. referencing historical armour and I believe majorly influenced by the games industry.
These designs by Barbara Bologna Genesis SS2013 remind me again of interpretations of Joan of Arc, particularly the leather accessories and details.  I like the textures, contrasts and shapes of this collection and I love the use of body paint in the presentation.

Phillip Lim 'Cut Up'

Phillip Lim's 'cut up' collection has probably sprung from, amongst other things, the art worlds recent obsession with paper cut work, with artists such as Rob Ryan reaching celebrity status and crossing genres of art and design.
Phillip Lim has cut up different fabrics, arranging and appliquéing them in this innovative collection.
A nod to the fragmentation of modern life, this is a collection with roots in Dadaism and techniques of collage.
Delicate stories run around the garments like fairy tales, romantic and wonderful.
(Images Tank)