In Florence’s industrial and productive area, Giles Deacon showed off the central theme of his installation for his Autumn/Winter 2010 pre-collection. Never doing anything by halves, Giles Deacon had ‘models arranged artfully on mountains of pristine white plates, sitting like statues that purposely jarred with the sounds of crashing plates that fell off a caged […]
Giles Deacon 2010 Autumn/Winter Pre-collection Presentation at Pitti
In Florence’s industrial and productive area, Giles Deacon showed off the central theme of his installation for his Autumn/Winter 2010 pre-collection. Never doing anything by halves, Giles Deacon had ‘models arranged artfully on mountains of pristine white plates, sitting like statues that purposely jarred with the sounds of crashing plates that fell off a caged conveyor belt. It’s a balance between the unexpected and quirky together with conventional shapes. For example paperclip prints and spanner graphic prints play out on ladylike dresses. These industrial motifs were further enhanced by Stephen Jones’ punchy headgear’.
All of which was inspired by Deacon’s first visit to the factory in which the performance took place, he states, ”When I saw the factory I was struck by the industrial mood and after that I did a lot of research about the components of industrial machines and about tools such as monkey wrenches and spanners and eventually made some super large and graphic prints of those, creating also 3D-like jacquards of bolts, nuts and clips”.
He also talks about his collection being made in Italy and the influence that has had on his designing, talking of his technical availabilities he says, ”It has opened up a whole new world of pieces that we could have never produced in London because, in the UK, we don’t have that kind of access to those techniques, quality, knowledge or ability”.
See Giles Deacon’s Autumn/Winter 2010 pre-collection preview below.
Images and quoted text above from Dazed Digital.
