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LONDON FASHION WEEK A/W2010-11 – KATIE EARY
 

 

Polished and utterly realised, Katie Eary extinguished the cliche of the Urban Jungle with a collection that truly revealed the vitality of MAN day. To the bounce of 'Junglist Massive', the extension of Katie's repertoire immediately emerged as digital prints of snakes writhing in an explosion of oranges, greens and blacks enveloped full looks from trousers and shirts to trenches and even shoes. Cuts remained relatively classic but manipulation and the choice of fabrication they were truly invigorated.

Patent crocodile skin in lime green and fluorescent orange transformed oxford shirts and slim leg pants, velvet was stripped away to reveal sheer zebra stripes and echoed in matching trousers, avian feather prints enveloped t-shirts and fur decked parka's with a feral abandon. Matching studded baseball caps and glittering grills, blunt coloured fringes and velvet machine guns hanging from backpacks, a clash of irridescence and matt of texture and flat print, maintained a vivid, uncompromising vision, and one that Urbanite or Jungle dweller, explorer or home body would be happy to don.

Photography by Emma Gibney

Backstage photography by Matt King