Cooperative Designs SS 2011: Bollywood Babylon

  

Please bear with me - I'm still catching up on London Fashion Week posts!

Upon entering the Cooperative Designs SS 2011 presentation at the Groucho Club, I felt as if I'd walked into a scene from Henry and June - if Maria de Madeiros and Uma Thurman had been wearing knitwear in Indian desert hues with leather and stud accessories in their 1920s Paris salons. A barefoot model in a striking graphic monochrome dress was playing a lively ragtime tune on the piano in the art deco-ish room which added to the charm of the scene. And it was a scene.

There's always one face that stands out amongst the models and most keep their observations to themselves (it's so banal to notice the models), but there was one major exception here: an utterly enchanting woman in her 60s or maybe even 70s who was the talk of the room and would have stolen the show had it not been so rich and robust in colour, texture and style:

 

Hang on, I'm not done yet...she's too awesome:

 
Two of the girls were talking with their heads together and it reminded me of, again, Henry and June:

 

 

 

 

 

The official transportation of Bollywood Babylon?

  Photos by Denise Grayson @ The Swelle Life 

Comments

[Philippe]

Oooo That's a very a very good one, it will be reblogged soon :)

Philippe
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