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The rue de Lappe in Paris is very colorful and vibrant dirty old cobblestone street in the Bastille quarters near the Boulevard St Anthoine and therefore it was no surprise during this Paris fashion week to find hidden in the old alley’s darker interiors a showroom featuring the Scottish textile print master of the colors of the rainbow: The marvellous collections of Jonathan Saunders.
Usually well featured in New York and London it was thus nice to be able to see the Jonathan Saunders AW14 collection in Paris during fashion week where normally you would only be able to find a product outlet for the grand brand at Printemps Haussman.
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Jonathan Saunders is well known for architectural style (called clean-form) colors printed on different textiles and indeed this the coming fall winter collection was more colorful than one would dare to imagine or hope in Paris where in winter almost everyone is only dressed in black or grey, or maybe brown. This type of collection would certainly perk up Parisian streets in winter should men only for once dare to wear more colors than women and buy Jonathan Saunders in addition to their collection of socks and underwear by Paul Smith.
One could perhaps imagine the dark experiences of the créateur from the misty Scottish highlands turned around into blazing and various colors on the various ends of the spectrum so as to brighten short days – all produced and meted out in patterned and engineered pieces of prints on textile, so as to give form and content and meaning to gloomy days. The perfect measure for a dark and forboding winter to come if you want to brighten things up.
For winter and fall 2014, thus, Jonathan Saunders brings us far from the Scottish highlands the light fantastic – the Aurora Borealis descending from above in multi-colors – and printed on your coat, your jacket your scarf, your sweater in mutliple checkered patterns, squares, lines, rectangles – and by golly why not – Coco Chanel windows.
Image credit: Filippo Fior
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