Pièce d'Anarchive
An explosion of wildly different knitwear techniques, playful and mischievous, are here combined to make you nod in recognition as you see a familiar shirt, jacket or skirt remade as a knit. Piece d’Anarchive is playing with silhouettes, textures and stitches and in the process arriving at something both unexpected and yet recognizable. Taking as a starting point images depicting tribal accoutrements – scarification in graphic patterns, a necklace made out of animal teeth, hand-made costumes for ritual use and one fashion image, a dancing woman in high spirits wearing a white fringed dress, a Josephine Baker beauty this first offering by Piece d’Anarchive is as full of celebratory spirit as the images that inspired it. On one end of the spectrum there are laid-back boyfriend styles like running shorts, sloppy jumpers and loose shirts, and on the other, there are delicate and feminine choices like puff-sleeved cardigans, a flirty dress and knickers. As for textures, they do all the talking. There are fancy yarns fighting for attention with bubble stitches on an otherwise classic cardigan, lurex yarns glittering unexpectedly here and there or even those animal teeth echoing in the neckline of a girly dress. The colours meanwhile are kept simple. A palette of blacks, navys, grey marl, white and just a touch of bronze, complement the vivacity of the textures and the dynamism of the stitches, and remind you that it is in the juxtaposition of contrasts that the most interesting marriages are born.
Spring-Summer 2012 Collection by Priscilla & Déborah Royer and Virginie Muys.
