Anne Demeulermeester Spring 2012

I still love Anne Demeulemeester. 

Even though there is a darkness in the dencontructed chic of this great Belgian designer, there is a dreaming there too. And lately in my interest in Innana, the Sumerian Goddess of dark and light, this ensemble just makes stopped me in my tracks. Timeless and a classical signature look (this season she showed a lot of chiffons and transparents in amongst the structured unstructures.

Below is my Innana necklace (black/white agate, vintage cut garnet) which I made several months ago.

A friend bought it straight off my bench, I hadn't even snipped off the loose ends.

So I think dark and light is an important archetype at the moment, as we face up to the dark, to allow more light in.

Anne Demeulemeester Spring 09

The Anne Demeulemeester catwalk for Spring 09 (above) was particularly dark and bleak I thought. Apart from some gorgeous orange-the-new-black pieces. Given that this show happened in October 08, when everyone was feeling particularly pessimistic, I guess one can understand. But I have to say that the jewels are beautiful, they are not unlike some pieces I made for a Couture show (which got cancelled) about 8 years. (below)
Model is my daughter-out-law, Jesse Neave, the beautiful mother of my divine grandson: Leroy.