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Fashion designers with inspiring perspectives for spring/summer 2014
By Terry Check
What's The Scoop?
For the fashion-minded, it’s happening in London at the Scoop International Fashion Show, a boutique women’s wear tradeshow, founded by fashion expert, Karen Radley. More than 400 emerging and established directional designers presented their Spring/Summer 2014 collections in the unique venues of Saatchi Gallery and Phillip’s Gallery in the tony districts of Chelsea and Westminster in London. Cliché Magazine together with Terry Check, fashion writer and photographer, selected an outstanding French designer setting the fashion trends of tomorrow. With her creative DNA and tenacity, Lucy Kepp has a unique story. Their designs are featured in the fashion editorial, Work of Art, in this issue of Le Style.
How best to learn haute couture fashion? Spend seven years designing with the best in Paris, Atelier Caraco Canezou. Working with clients such as Chanel, Givenchy and Yves Saint-Laurent, Ms. Kepp honed her skills of printing, dyeing, cutting, stitching and designing; and started the Lucy Kepp label in 2011. South of Paris in Sancerre amidst the beauty of vineyards, Lucy focuses on her signature, Art in Fashion. Painting with colored fabrics and sculpting every garment with ribbons, she creates original pieces, no two exactly alike, pleasing clientele looking to express their individuality with truly original women’s wear. “Silk painting and ribbon pleating, exclusively made by hand, are free and spontaneous sewing techniques created be me”, Lucy states with pride. “It’s like holding on by magic”.
Yes, it is magical when viewing the latest collection, Unframed, which has no frame or point of previous reference. “Dresses as paintings daubed with silk muslin brushstrokes, rippling delicately, floating freely, and caresses suspended in movement. Dresses as sculptures, ribbons becoming form, pleated folds interlacing instinct and desire with structure and design. Contours that seduce with a mischievous and playful cut. French charm, innovative design. Each garment is signed with unique gestures from the designer’s hand”.
Sculptured linen and cotton jacket with pleated ribbon, linen trousers with pleated ribbon on the waist, cream down-turn hat with coffee chiffon.