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NYFW: Creatures of the Wind SS17

Wonderland Staff — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 12:50:21 +0000

Shane Gabier and Chris Peters look to women in music to inspire their SS17 collection, Travel Happy.

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NYFW: Creatures of the Wind AW16

Wonderland Staff — Fri, 12 Feb 2016 12:47:11 +0000

Ceremonial and subtle, Creatures of the Wind played on Freemasonry for AW16.

Ritual Tidings

With this season’s Creatures of the Wind collection shown in the Masonic Hall of New York City, it wasn’t hard to guess the designers had fraternity on the brain. The Hall is one of Manhattan’s hallowed gathering places for Freemasons – the secretive male-only organization whose recognizable square-and-compass emblem is associated with rituals dating to the 16th century. Servers offered goji berry tea as guests were ushered through a hallway flanked by glass cabinets full of artifacts: ceremonial tassels and inscribed porcelain vessels, even a Bible with gold-edged pages.

Mistresses for Masters

Past myriad portraits of well-decorated “Masters”, massive wooden doors housed an auditorium with vast gilded ceilings. Against this backdrop, the first model descended ceremoniously down steps into the scarlet-carpeted pit. She wore a triangular knee-scraping dress out of suit-like fabric, layered over a collared white dress shirt with long slitted sleeves: a picture of softened masculinity. Subsequent looks fell on a varied spectrum – Beetlejuice stripes on liquidy silk mingled with black lace, with several dresses in a stiff patent leather. Black and grey were the predominate tones, interspersed with red, royal blue, and mustard yellow.

Sealed with Silver

Despite lacking the obvious theme of previous seasons, the collection offered continuity in the form of silver jewellery: earrings like Newton’s balls, and silver triangle pendants inspired perhaps by the Freemason symbol. Various coats were sprinkled with silver studded embellishments (a few abstracted flowers, but nothing too feminine), while leather boots and booties were approximately the standard. Altogether a little bit stern, a little bit soft – an offering as diverse as any secret brotherhood.

Photographer: Gabriela Celeste

Words: R.J. Hernandez

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NYFW: Creatures of the Wind SS15

Wonderland Staff — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 10:39:23 +0000

Art teacher chic meets Santorini seduction, the SS15 CoTW girl is colorful and slightly off-kilter

So here’s a theory

Creatures of the Wind is ‘art teacher chic’ – for the art teacher in her twenties. Forget caftans and chunky jewellery; turn back the clock thirty years before the laughlines, grizzled grey hair and mismatched earrings, and there you have it – The CoTW girl is colorful and slightly off-kilter (she loves Cezanne, you know, and Matisse’s paper collages), yet presentable enough for parent-teacher meetings at The Brearley School.

This season, the twentysomething year old Ms. Holland goes on vacation: Santorini, maybe, or Côte d’Azur – somewhere refreshing, where she’ll ride a bicycle through cobblestone streets, and catch up on a light paperback.

The first look says it all

The china blue-and-white patterned top echoes a tiled wall mosaic, the kind you might find in the bathroom at a coastal French bed-and-breakfast (someplace old, with a leaky cast-iron spigot). The pants – well, they’re canonical CoTW – colorful, but not loud, chic but not stifling. This art teacher wears her heart on her patterned sleeve.

Guided tour

Designers Shane Gabier and Christopher Peters take us on a breezy seaside journey: dishcloth-y stripes on dresses/coats/bags evolve through the collection into sequins (bronze, like antiquated mermaid scales), and picnic fabrics turn up sporty racing details with a Prada FW14 feel.

Thanks for the memories

Those shoes. Platform moccasins. Braided patent leather – metallic.

We’ve see a lot of things on vacation, but these – let’s just say this these babies are the first thing we’re packing into our Santorini suitcases next season.

Words / Seymour Glass

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