Mary Katrantzou Autumn Winter 2014

The Autumn Winter 2014 Mary Katrantzou Show at London Fashion Week.

The inspiration for Mary Katrantzou's autumn/winter 2014 collection can be found everywhere: the symbolic exchange of a stop sign, the meaning of colour, heraldic insignia, the symbolic charge of a rose, uniforms, uniformity. Each has an immediate visual impact, a language of their own that suggests an idea, a belief, an action.

Mary Katrantzou cross-pollinates her signs and symbols. Chain-mail butchers aprons are reinterpreted as a metallic dress under slick suiting or adorned with metallic cookie-cutter jewels; fragile lace patterned with road-signs and tool box interiors, and bespoke military-inspired appliqués are used as decorative devices. The meaning is not lost, but the symbols are given an additional meaning, a new aesthetic impact. Sometimes, the collaging forms new symbols. Tokenistic gods, pagan silhouettes reminiscent of samurai warriors are created from collections of signs and symbols, themselves forming new emblems that signify Mary Katrantzou.