One of my favourite spring collections is definetly the Meadham Kirchhoff one. I felt like pushed back into my rebellious teenage years. Nobody understood how you felt. You hated school and your class and were quite often pissed about yourself and stopped talking to your parents. You wanted to be cool and underline that you were different but there was also a desire to be a little bit like the popular girls, a natural beauty. You wanted to be so much but didn't knew were to start and so it was inevitable that you became obsessed with it and as a result was your biggest rival.
The funny thing here is that I wanted to become a fashion designer so badly and I was in the bloom of my really wild Visual Kei/ J-Rock years and wanted to express that. I dyed my hair in shiny red and black and later on got pink and yellow and had quite funny haircuts. The only sewing skills I had back than were the ones of doing easy accessoires and bits and bobs so I started sewing collars, headpieces and frilled sleeves and almost everything I got was 'pimped' with lace. God how I love lace and embroidery.
And this collection reminds me of all that and I feel like (even if I didn't think like this back than) it's good that I experienced all that. Thank you Meadham Kirchhoff!! I could kiss you for the shiny colours and especially the fabulous sandals. They are a girls dream!!!Thank you Nazir Mazhar!!!
How I wish I could have seen this show, just look at the uber pretty Alice-in-Wonderland-esque setting with all the pink and lavender coloured flowers. And on top of that is of course the collection: All the layers and layers of frills, lace and chiffon combined with khaki drill jackets and skirts and the painted biker jackets and tees are a fantastic and inspirational change of style.
Right now I feel so deeply inspired that I want to sit down in front of my sewing machine and sew lovely collars like that with multicoloured velvet ribbons.
