The label is named after one designer Peter Pilotto, however, this label is part of a duo. The duo won Best Emerging Talent Award at the British Fashion Awards in 2009 which proved to be a honour to the brand. The two partners attended Antwerp's Royal Academy of Fine Arts where they met and became partners. The duo have very unique and different contributions to the brand as Pilotto is focused toward textile and print whereas De Vos concentrates more on silhouette and drape. However when the two are combined they create breathe taking pieces.
"Peter Pilotto's vision of womenswear embraces both new and classic perspectives on elegance. Otherworldly prints combine with soft, sculptural shapes to form the handwriting of the design duo, something which evolves and is explored each season
as opposed to being reactionary."
The designers drew inspiration from the 1970’s California rock climbers, rapid movement of light, and an eleventh century Byzantine mosaic. This is reflected through the carefully sculptural tailored cropped jackets, the mosaic printed dresses, and colour palette. The SS2011 collection had a sophisticated silhouette of elongated dresses made from silks. The inspiration of the 1970’s rock climbing was seen through the use of airy silks which demonstrated the movement and wind experienced in rock climbing. The designers made the pieces look exciting to the eye just by the tailoring creating structural paneling with contrasting drapes. This contrasting was carried out through a majority of pieces with a combination of soft, light weight fabrics with hard, heavy weight fabrics through this use captures the elegant modern women. The collection had a variation of form fitting knits, floaty dresses, body hugging trousers and a sporty cropped jackets.
Furthermore, the designers inspiration of the eleventh century Byzantine mosaic was seen through the prints on the silk. They created intricate detailing on the silks
almost copying the nature of mosaics onto the fabric using various geometrical shapes, also creating a mosaic texture onto the white fabrics. These prints where layered almost creating a collage of all three inspirations merging together harmoniously. This appears to be done through the designers carefully selecting a colour pallets that will not over power the designs and each other using warm colours of shades of nude, white, eggshell blues.
Stocklist at Liberty, London Harvey Nichols London.
The designers drew inspiration from the 1970’s California rock climbers, rapid movement of light, and an eleventh century Byzantine mosaic. This is reflected through the carefully sculptural tailored cropped jackets, the mosaic printed dresses, and colour palette. The SS2011 collection had a sophisticated silhouette of elongated dresses made from silks. The inspiration of the 1970’s rock climbing was seen through the use of airy silks which demonstrated the movement and wind experienced in rock climbing. The designers made the pieces look exciting to the eye just by the tailoring creating structural paneling with contrasting drapes. This contrasting was carried out through a majority of pieces with a combination of soft, light weight fabrics with hard, heavy weight fabrics through this use captures the elegant modern women. The collection had a variation of form fitting knits, floaty dresses, body hugging trousers and a sporty cropped jackets.
Furthermore, the designers inspiration of the eleventh century Byzantine mosaic was seen through the prints on the silk. They created intricate detailing on the silks almost copying the nature of mosaics onto the fabric using various geometrical shapes, also creating a mosaic texture onto the white fabrics. These prints where layered almost creating a collage of all three inspirations merging together harmoniously. This appears to be done through the designers carefully selecting a colour pallets that will not over power the designs and each other using warm colours of shades of nude, white, eggshell blues.
Stocklist at Liberty, London Harvey Nichols London.
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