This is Phil Meech’s brilliant dissection of my science-inspired knits. Always picking up on the stitch detail, graphic lines and texture; his style of shooting is exacting yet spontaneous and honest. The series of shots for AW11 create a wonderful narrative throughout the lookbook, which will be on the website this week. In the meantime, his brilliance is on show in the SS11 Lookbook: www.brookeroberts.net
This season’s knitwear programmes were inspired by an x-ray calibration film – assessing grey scales according to exposure (a product of kVp and mAs – for those of you into radiation physics). I programmed the knitted jacquards from the x-ray film, mixing yarns in multi-tones of grey, camel and natural cashwool.
The garment construction incorporates tailoring techniques, and focuses heavily on silhouette and style-lines. The yarns used include 3M retro-reflective, cashmere, silk, extra-fine merino wool, wool mousse boucle’ and camel hair. The accessories are Eye of The World Designs for Brooke Roberts: hand-crafted wood, perspex and PVC belts and hats.
Techno-luxe. Trad-future.
Tanti Baci
