New Minimalism is of utmost importance, paring down garments to their purest elements to express a Modernist ethos. Garments are precisely tailored, their fabrics, cut and construction forming the only decoration in a minimal interpretation of Bauhaus.
Key pieces from Barrett’s Fall/Winter 2013 modernist menswear collection – graphic sweatshirts, quilted bombers and overcoats with internally belted volume – are reappropriated for women.
The visual effects are the same, but garments are reimagined and re-proportioned for the female figure.
Voluminous overcoats are sliced precisely at the waist and padded leather jackets cropped high on the torso. The torso is rounded at the sleeve, emphasised by the structure of bonded textiles, and the swell of a dropped shoulder-seam above slender trousers or layered, short skirts.
Texture is a focus throughout, combining the ponyskin and leather with wools in pressed astrakhan or casentino finishes as well as traditional suiting, juxtaposed in Modernist collages of texture inspired by the Bauhaus.
A jacquard wool is specially woven to mimic the Bauhaus obsession with strict diagonal and curved geometry, cut into slim suiting.
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