SADIE WILLIAMS – SS 17 COLLECTION
SADIE WILLIAMS RETURNS WITH A COLLECTION INSPIRED BY LIFE AT SEA. ‘BUOY’ SHOWCASES
STRANDED GIRLS GLISTENING AT THE SHORELINE. TYPICAL NOTIONS OF NAUTICAL FASHION ARE LEFT BY THE WAYSIDE. GRAPHIC NAUTICAL CODES AND SIGNALS ARE TRANSLATED THROUGH A DISTINCTIVE BLENDING OF ‘TOMBUOY’ ATTITUDE AND REFINED FEMININITY.
SADIE’S SIGNATURE SHIMMERING TEXTILES GLISTEN UNDER THE BEAM OF A LIGHTHOUSE BEACON.
THIS SEASON INTRODUCES SADIE WILLIAMS TO THE SWAROVSKI COLLECTIVE. THEIR CRYSTALS APPEAR AS DECORATIVE EMBELLISHMENT IMBUED IN THE WORLD OF NAUTICAL CODES AND SIGNALS.
LIGHT ARRANGEMENTS OF VESSELS AGAINST THE NIGHT ARE TRANSLATED INTO CLUSTERED CRYSTALS SET AGAINST DEEP BLACK SATINS, WHILST MORSE CODE SUBTLY TWINKLES AT THE EDGES OF CRISP WHITE SHIRTS. CRYSTALS SPELL OUT THE ALPHABET N MARITIME SIGNAL FLAGS AS RIBBONS BORDERING ELEGANT TROUSERS AND SAILOR COLLARED JACKETS.
BOLD PRINTS BREAK THE FLAG SIGNALS THROUGH PLEATING, WHILST BLOCK PRIMARY COLOURS PREVAIL AMONGST A MULTI-TEXTILE LANDSCAPE, WHICH NODS TO LIFE BY THE SEA. TOWELLING APPEARS IN SWEATSHIRTS AND JEANS, WHILST COLOURFULLY COLLAGED LINENS & COTTONS IMBUE AN EASY WEAR OF LONG SUMMERS. TWISTED TOPS ECHO THE WRAPPING OF TOWELS WORN AT THE BEACH, AND FISHING TACKLE IS STRUNG TO THE LACES OF DR. MARTENS DM’S LITE SOLARIS & RIGAL SHOES. THEY STYLE IT WITH JEWELLERY CONSTRUCTED FROM MARITIME KNOTS AND SPLICES DECORATED WITH PERSPEX CHARMS OF BUOYS AND BOATS.
SEAN THOMSON AND WARWICK TURNER-NOAKES CREATE A COASTAL SCENE AT NIGHT, COMPLIMENTED BY AN IMMERSIVE SOUNDTRACK BY JACKSON HOLMES. LUCY BRIDGE USES MAC COSMETICS TO PAINT AN IMAGE OF THE GIRLS WINDSWEPT AND SMUDGED AS THEY EMERGE AT SHORE, COMPLETED WITH BRAIDED LOCKS, AND SALT SPRAYED AND WINDSWEPT BY SYD HAYES.
CREDITS:
STYLING- POPPY KAIN AT INTREPID
CASTING- ARAMINTA MARKES
SET DESIGN- SEAN THOMSON & WARWICK TURNER-NOAKES
HAIR- SYD HAYES & TEAM AT ART+ COMMERCE
MAKE-UP- LUCY BRIDGE & THE MAC PRO TEAM
NAILS- IMARNI AT SAINT LUKE ARTISTS USING NAILENE
SOUNDTRACK- JACKSON HOLMES
SPECIAL THANKS TO
NEWGEN TEAM, TOPSHOP, THE BFC, NANA SWAROVSKI & TEAM, SARAH MOWER, ARABELLA WILLIAMS, ARIADNE MITCHELL KOTSAKIS, EDEN LOWETH, EMILY MARSH, FRANCES ODIM-LOUGHLIN. FRANCIS WILLIAMS, FRIDA AGREN, HAMPUS BERGGREN, JACKIE LYALL, JESS KERNTIFF, JOE WILLIAMS, JOSEPH HORTON JUSTIN MANSFIELD: LUCIA REED, TOM BARRATT, AASIA D’VAZ-STERLING, ALINE GHOSN, ANNABELLE CHARLIER, CATHERINE BOOTH, EMILY MARSH. JANIRA GAYA, JIWON WOO, JOYCE WINGHIM YIP, LAURA STEVENS, LOLA ODUMOSU, NATALIA NICOAU STEPHANIE ANCHONWA
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