In a season that looks to be dominated by block colours and bold prints, Basso and Brooke offered a softer, lighter mood with watercolour wash prints on delicate, billowing shapes. Inspired by both the poetic painted visions of JMW Turner and by the innovations and mythology of the classical Greeks, the boys’ signature prints were softened and abstracted, showcasing a range of clever digital techniques on a variety of voluminous, draped dresses topped off with amazingly cloudlike ‘invisible air hats’ created by Stephen Jones.
From the storminess of Turner’s colour palette seen on a billowing floor-length Grecian column dress, to the golden tones
of a classical Greek image pixellated into colour blocks and printed on
the most delicately softened billowing hemlines, the collection was sensitive and intelligent, with light-as-a-feather sheer silks and barely-there dresses offset by enveloping coats with
oversize collars and the ubiquitous black tights.
Textural tone-on-tone prints of classical Grecian architectural shapes, characters of the Greek alphabet used to create plasticized lace bustiers, and silicone-treated ‘wet-look’ fabrics added a harder edge to party pieces, whilst flowing floor-length silk dresses were the ultimate in elegance.
The boys chose to call this collection ‘turning’- could this be to do with their subversion of the season’s expectations, or indeed to do with the turning on it’s head of conventional seasonal weather thanks to global warming? Whatever it means, one thing is for certain- Basso and Brooke are definitely turning into key players on the London catwalk.
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