Mary Katranzou Show - London Fashion Week Spring 2012 LFW

http://www.FTV.com/videos LONDON - The first thing you may have noticed about Mary Katranzou's Spring/Summer 2012 collection at London Fashion Week (besides the eye-popping prints of course) is the colorful lips on the models. This especially stood out on Ajak Deng, the model who opened the show, who's electric blue pout shocked the audience against her darker skin. Other models wore coral, turqouise, violet, and red lips but weren't as effective. There was no rigidness in the eye-popping color, instead of strong, hard lines, the painted dresses and ready-to-wear seemed to be defined by smooth strokes of color almost as if a painter had decided to use each dress as his abstract canvas. There was also hints of nature-inspired themes---floral, feathers--and a metallic lift which Katrantzou was said to have taken from John Chamberlain's crushed car sculptures and other metal products like cans. The result was practically three-dimensional. All in all, Katrantzou tried to showcase the differences between natural elements and the mass production of society, and the result was almost too much. But it worked.

Appearances: Ajak Deng, Simone Carvalho, Sofia Fisher, Ava Smith, Mary Katrantzou