POP 051/ Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Today’s Pop is Megan. Having just spent a weekend in Monaco, frolicking with Prince Albert at glitzy art dinners, we slapped her back into bleak reality by making her pop a few questions to the queen of stern noir chic: Ann Demeulemeester.
She famously lives in the only Le Corbusier-built house in Belgium, where she can be seen overlooking her fashiondom from an ivory tower. For the men’s collections this year she introduced proper beige into her palette as well as a beautiful print of two birds based on a picture shot by her husband Patrick Robyn.
We gave her the customary THEPOP.COM quick fire five.
What’s the motif of the collection?
Ann Demeulemeester: It’s an intriguing dialogue between the body and the garment, a sensitive balance of sensuality and strength, of tenderness and power. It’s also about enlightenment and innocence, but an innocence that is almost provocative in its innocence.
How did that translate into the garments?
The clothes work as a second skin, There is a lot of naked skin in the show, but the nakedness works with the clothes and that’s the dialogue between the body and the garment!
You seem to have worked a lot with beige this time around.
Yes, I have light beige colours inspired by skin and the enlightenment led me to white and light blue. But there is also black in there. It’s very important that there is strength in the collection as well, and it comes in the shape of black leather!
Is that to create a sort of dynamism?
Yes, opposites and tension, but it’s very delicate – it’s a fine line! This time around I really wanted to concentrate on the garments, voluntarily I made it much more pure.
Do you have a favourite piece in the collection?
No, you can’t just have one piece, you would be naked. No, I can’t choose – they’re all my children, don’t make me choose between them!
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