What the designer says: Mission 1: Question the tradition of construction Mission 2: Create a tension between heavy materials and visible nude body parts. Inspiration: "The Things That Dreams are Made of"
What we say: After the show I am not really impressed, then I look at the pictures from the show and I find a lot of garments that I really like and I realise that what makes it a bit.. boring is.. Hope with Hope. Hope is just one of those labels that have a lot of individual garments that are amazing but... when combined only with other Hope pieces you just wont get thrilled. So - Hope + something else.. will make good!
Also.. with the mens clothes you more clearly see the ambition to create that airy, relaxed but still stylish elegance that is hard to pull off but that Lars Nilsson did extremely well for the Ferré mens collections this season. Sometimes Hope manages it really well as well.
Designers: Ann Ringstrand & Stefan Söderberg Collection name: Autumn / winter 2008 Collection Stylist: Ellen af Geijerstam / LundLund Hair: Robert Preston / MIKAs Make-up: Helen Borg / Agent Bauer