Florilegium by Corrie Nielsen for Spring/Summer 2013

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Florilegium by Corrie Nielsen for Spring/Summer 2013

Ever drawn to the past, Corrie Nielsen again looks to a Medieval Latin word to summate Spring/Summer 2013. Florilegium literally means the gathering of flowers, but refers to a collective of writing. For the new season, Corrie writes a floral story that has spanned centuries, through sculpted forms and elaborate tailoring. Observances from London’s Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew are at the centre of her work, taking one of the world’s most esteemed collections of fauna and even glass house architecture and reinterpreting it in a way that only Corrie can conceive.

Metallic silk is shaped around the entire body as a giant all-encompassing peony rose, while the Victorian Palm House of Kew is flipped inside out with folds of leaves wrapping around a transparent glass-like bodice. Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution is played out in Corrie’s avant-garde dip-dyed wedding dress – one of the many showpieces for the season. Large sculpted petals in a gradient of grey are ribboned in at the waist and followed by trailing swathes of finely layered ivory silk.

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