Re-imagining the everyday, Faustine Steinmetz manipulates and dissects polo shirts, college sweaters and dresses with admirable lightness. Taking cues from Salvador Dali’s paintings of distorted objects and Joseph Kosuth’s conceptual approaches that challenge accepted shape and form, her garments appear to melt or dissolve with almost a fluid quality. Trails of wild flowers linger on a white t-shirt and jeans combo, a stripy monochrome dress is fringed into abstraction while another turns seamlessly transparent.
Moving away from the heavier denim explorations of previous seasons, for this presentation Faustine Steinmetz moves into new exciting territory – retaining her sophisticated yet streetwise approach to laid-back simplicity.
by Elisabeth Krohn
Images courtesy of Purple PR