I was invited to a viewing last week for a designer called Lee Klabin, which I thought I’d share with you as many of the pieces were beautiful. After a first degree in biomedics, Lee Klabin went on to the LCF where she discovered a love of corsetry. Her first Ready to Wear collection launched in London this February and a full S/S collection will be on show in London and Paris this autumn. The medical/art background is interesting because you can see that the corsetted constructions she makes are designed both to accentuate the female form as well as to alter and flatter it. This collection incapsulates ‘traditional tailoring meets technology’ and she has been innovative with the basic elements of the corset, so that the boning, for example, is manipulated in unconventional ways. I am always impressed by detail and there’s lot to find her and there are some lovely necklines in whites, greys and blacks, lots of clever pleating, and I liked the way tartan and leather make an appearance with nice subtlety.
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