House of Worth
In Giovanni Bendin’s fifth collection for House of Worth since beginning in 2010 as creative director, he featured extreme fans and pleats in his eight piece offering. Drawing inspiration from a beautiful kimono coat he had seen at the Kyoto Costume Institute in Japan, Bedin told Vogue UK, “It was so stunning that it gave me the idea to start the collection,”.
Fashion entrepreneurs Dilesh Mehta and Martin McCarthy, are obviously pleased with Giovanni’s efforts as they aim to revive the legendary fashion brand. Bedin, who has worked with Karl Lagerfeld and Thierry Mugler, is obviously taking it seriously, too.
Bedin went on to tell Vogue UK that is was a huge responsibility... “For couture, for its creativity and for ready-to-wear, for the customer. I’m very happy and pleased with the collection, it was a good progression. Still, the shape is really dramatic. If you don’t experiment in couture, you don’t experiment anywhere else in the collection. It’s a tribute to creativity and freedom, “he said.
His imagination and free will was realised with his strong structures, especially his wide winged shaped shoulders that could have taken flight in mid air. I LOVED his layering technique of fanned fabrics that were each perfectly pleated around the curves of a woman’s body.
“It all came together at the same time and took three months to make,” said Bedin, noting that the pleating of the fabric in particular was the most complicated aspect.
Seeing as there were only a handful of pieces he kept the colour palette quite simple by only including white, beige, black and red.
Even though the collection was short, it was certainly sweet and blew me away. I would normally say GOOD things come in small packages, but this time, Bedin has presented GREAT things. He has certainly created art!!
