Peter Pilotto and Christopher De Vos are the designers behind the Peter Pilotto label. They embrace new and classic perspectives on elegance through otherworldly prints combined with soft sculptural shapes. Pilotto focuses on textiles and prints while De Vos concentrates on silhouette and drape. They are fascinated with a scientific view of nature reflected in their hyper-real prints.
Zandra Rhodes was introduced to fashion by her mother and created her own boldly patterned and colorful dresses. Her dramatic lifestyle is reflected in her designs, which have a timeless quality through their fierce femininity and theatrical use of color and print.
Mary Katrantzou's work is also stunning through her use
2. Peter Pilotto
About
Peter Pilotto and Christopher De Vos are the designers behind
the Peter Pilotto label.
Peter Pilotto’s vision of womens wear embraces both new and
classic perspectives on elegance. Otherworldly prints combine
with soft sculptural shapes to form the handwriting of the
design duo, something which evolves and is explored each
season as opposed to being reactionary.
Pilotto is focused toward textile and print whereas De Vos
concentrates more on silhouette and drape.
The duo are particularly fascinated with a scientific view of
nature, as reflected in the microscopic, encrusted, hyper-real
prints of the collections.
3. I really like these designs as
Peter Pilotto they’re quite subtle but still
unusual without being too
Autumn/Winter 2009 Collection
over the top.
4. I found the gradients of the
Peter Pilotto yellow to black & blue really
interesting within these
Spring/Summer 2010 Collection garments.
5. Peter Pilotto
Spring/Summer 2012 Collection
This years collection is my
favourite as the geometrics
stand out well with use of bold
colours and the geometric
construction such as strapless
or different cuts within some
garments.
6. Zandra Rhodes
About
Zandra Rhodes was born in Kent in 1940 and introduced to the
world of fashion by her mother, a fitter for the Paris fashion House of
Worth and later a lecturer at Medway College of Art.
Her early textile designs were considered ‘too outrageous’ by the
traditional British manufacturers so she decided to make dresses
from her own fabrics.
Zandra's own lifestyle is as dramatic, glamorous and extrovert as
her designs. With her bright pink hair, theatrical make-up and art
jewellery, she has stamped her identity on the international world
of fashion.
Her unique use of bold prints, fiercely feminine patterns and
theatrical use of colour has given her garments a timeless quality
that makes them unmistakably a Rhodes creation.
7. I love these garments as they
Zandra Rhodes aren’t just ‘catwalk’ fashion, I
think they’re commercial and
Spring/Summer 2008 Collection
could be worn by anybody.
I like the use of geometrics within the print and also how the
garments have been put together.
8. Zandra Rhodes
Spring/Summer 2009 Collection
Bold, striking print and again
unusual form, such as the
repeat tutu style that I found
unusual and really like.
9. Zandra Rhodes Again , I found the bold print
works well with the repeat
Autumn/Winter 2009 Collection
structure of the garments.
10. Zandra Rhodes The main reason I found
Spring/Summer 2008 Collection interest in these garments was
purely on the bright colours
and strong patterns. I found
they really make a statement.
11. Mary Katrantzou
Spring 2012 Collection
I find her work stunning, her use of
pattern and colour work really well
together, making a statement but not
being as bold as Zandra Rhodes’s
designs.