Named in the ‘Ones To Watch’ by Vauxhall Fashion Scout, fashion designer Anja Mlakar conceived her latest Fall 2011-12 collection with clean, sculptural silhouettes in mind while dabbling with weaves, laser-cut garments and foam-filled jerseys in a restrained color palette. The prominent feature of her garments is the rounded, floating skirts which were inspired from a deconstructed tutu that Mlakar designed for a ballerina.
Check out Anja’s website for more info on her past collections.
Design statement:
Anja Mlakar’s Fall 2011-12 collection, her first for Vauxhall Fashion Scout’s Ones To Watch, shows off her signature aesthetic: clean laser-cut lines and geometric weaves, crisp blocks of washed-out colour and sculptural silhouettes. She re-imagines classic shapes through technical innovation, constructing three-dimensional layers, and square windows within fabrics, and mini-farthingales supporting floating skirts. Cashmeres, jerseys and wools appear in a restrained colour palette – muted blue-greys and nude-pinks, brighter rays of sunshine yellows and sunset reds, and twilight shadows of black – soundtracked by the hypnopompic monotone of “The Pink Room” from Twin Peaks. Minimalism is mixed with future-baroque flourishes, with modern arrangements of circles and squares. Perforated pixel-like grids; rounded cuffs with plastic supports; tubular belts of foam-filled jersey. Taking inspiration from a deconstructed Marie-Antoinette-esque tutu that Mlakar designed for ballerina Maria Kochetkova’s dance in “One Overture” – sheer body-con fabrics stretched over flattened, high-waisted crinoline under-structures. It’s a look of lightness, and of a new elegance for the future.
Photography: Christopher Dadey
