Pictured: Potipoti Spring 2009

It looks like it’s about time to change gears and start posting about sales in lieu of new arrivals. From now until June 18, 2009, Potipoti is offering 20% off pieces from their spring collection. If you are in store, just inform them or if purchasing online, the discount will apply at checkout. Wednesday, May 20, 2009, Hefina begins their spring sale with 25-50% off spring merchandise. Finally, Revolve has marked down their sale merchandise once more for some amazing deals.

For fall 2009, Berlin label potipoti continue to charm with their graphic prints. Opting for a theme darker than their tropical inspired spring collection, designers Silvia Salvador and Nando Cornejo draw on their Berlin surroundings for the fall collection, resulting in a collection with more grit.

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Potipot is a remote island getaway located near Metro Manila. The small island was the inspiration for potipoti’s spring line. The collection captures the exoticism of the tropics. This season’s color palette is aquatic, yet the collection still remains quite graphic.  Bearing in mind that potipoti’s design duo, Silvia Salvador and Nando Cornejo have a background in Fine Arts, it is not a surprise.  The studio-label, created in 2005 combines the best of “fashion, graphic design, visual arts, and product design.” It is this sense of interrelated arts, that make potipoti so compelling as a clothing label. Instead of mere clothes, a story is sure to accompany each collection.  Nando Cornejo was gracious enough to share this season’s story.

How did your interest in fashion begin?

We actually both studied fine arts, but we have always been attracted to fashion, particularly to textile design and stamping, so we’ve been gradually taking steps to reach the current situation by designing collections every 6 months.

What is your fashion background?

We are self-taught, we like the philosophy of do it yourself. At the end of 2005, we began to exhibit our drawings in empty premises in Berlin. We held parties. People didn’t buy pictures, but they did buy skirts and shirts. That’s how it all began.

Personally, what are your own shopping habits?

We really like buy in small shops with character and we don’t like shopping malls. We usually buy through internet too.

What designers do you like?

Walter Van Beirendonck, El Delgado Buil, Henrik Vibskov, Peter Jensen, Bjork & McElligott…

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Potipoti is the brainchild of designers Silvia Salvador and Nando Cornejo.  Both graduated with degrees in Fine Arts and worked in Madrid, Spain as art directors until their move to Berlin in 2001.  Together, they founded potipoti in 2005.  The label is dedicated to the marriage of design, graphics, and fashion.  Potipoti is manufactured in “small and reliable textile companies” in Castilla, Portugal, and Leon, Spain. 

There is always a bit of a fable in potipoti’s designs. In their latest collection for Autumn Winter 08, Totem, there is a pinch of folklore and a lot of imagination. The use of graphics and the shape of garments improves in each season. They bring from icy Berlin this their fifth and most grown up to date collection, a very colorful set of designs inspired in Native Americans Totems of polichromated wood as well as on vintage wooden toys. Beige, black, navy blue and colorful prints are the signature of this collection. Cotton and mohair, silk and micro-corduroy the fabrics.

LOVE the black & white webbed pants in the first picture and will more than likely be purchasing them.

Pictures from potipoti