Welsh designer Jayne Pierson graduated from the University of Glamorgan with a First in Fashion Design, combining several of her units with modules at Central St Martins. The Llanelli based designer then went on to win the London Graduate Fashion Week Ecological Fashion Award. She then interned at Alexander McQueen, Galliano and Vivienne Westwood before launching her own label with her début SS 2010 collection being shown at London Fashion Week in September 2009. This debut collection garnered so much interest Vogue Italia named her as one of Britain’s freshest new talents in 2009 and 2010.
Pierson’s latest collection, her fifth, for SS 2012 featured the Royal Ballet’s principal dancers gliding down the catwalk at London Fashion week. The collection were designed in collaboration with fellow designer Derek Lawlor and the pair named their collection “Pierson Lawlor”.
The collection used leather and silk in a soft palette of taupe and sand with the occasional burst of metallic burnt orange. Tassles and fringing further emphasised the contrast between the fluid, flowing silk and the rigidity and strongly structured shapes formed by the leather. This juxtaposition was further accentuated through the use of the dancers rather than models, with the clothes reflecting both the vulnerability and strength of the dancers.
Pierson said this use of fabric in the collection was “An intercultural world, organic structures and morphing textures.”
Pierson said: “I love the idea of breaking down conceptions,”
“Recreating conceptions of textiles, like leather which is often associated with fetish, and wool which has old-fashioned connotations. This is something completely new and I’m so excited!”
Pictures courtesy of The Style PA http://www.flickr.com/people/thestylepa/
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