London Fashion Week is all about the wow. It’s the heart of creativity in fashion and the platform for the freakishly chic, daring brain offspring of artists who have not yet established themselves as a “big name” design house. One of many covet worthy collections shown at London Fashion Week was that of Basso & Brooke. The collection is a spectacle of colors, wild prints, and unique textures. Noting the architectural influences, designers Christopher Brook and Bruno Basso of Basso & Brooke presented a compilation of looks, each taking on a power and life of their own. Models were virtually engulfed in voluminous billows of brocades, ruffles, and fabrics that enlist the shapes and consistencies of aged sedimentary rocks, gravel, and sandstone. The vivacious colors emulated clay matter, and elements of the ocean, sun, and sky. While strong structures and angled patterns invite us to ponder the relationship of the environment to edifices that seemingly embrace the sky and tower the terrain like steel Gods.

 

This collection succeeded in evoking the sentiment of the fashion “art experience.”  Basso & Brooke funneled an aesthetic that captured the imagination and attention the entire expanse of their fall 2008 anthology.