Beckmans goes luxury

Claes Britton | May 18, 2009 | 0 comments

One of fashion's fascinatiing, often comical traits is how everybody keep suddenly marching off in the same direction, though the course is new. At last weeks graduation show for the fashion students at Beckmans College of Design, staged at the Berns pleasure palace, it was abundantly clear that exclusivity, femininity and discrete elegance are now the qualities of choice amongst our fashion designers of tomorrow; luxury in cuts, color scale and materials. The graduating students' collections were similar to the point of confusion, with repetative use of fine leather, suede and satin, in a soft, light nuances such as beige, cream, silver gray and dusty pink, the looks frequently bordering between upgraded business and party. A bit more Danish you might call it all. All of the above are features that I've long requested in Swedish fashion, and though I've heard and read others calling the show dull and boring, I myself think that this is an interesting development in our Swedish fashion scene, as we've already seen more that enough of trendy, streety youth cult and, in latter seasons, homegrown couture. This time, Frida Ringström really stood out as the class freak with her amusing The Foam Rubber Collection, while her classmates presented looks that you would actually like to see a woman wearing. Not that new or innovative, perhaps on the contrary, but nice, tasteful and flattering, which is quite good enough for me.

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