Spring 2010 | Butterflysoulfire

Berlin-​​based But­ter­fly­soul­fire has always been a label to rebel against tra­di­tional sil­hou­ettes in a way that gives ready-​​to-​​wear an avant-​​garde flair. For their spring 2010 col­lec­tion enti­tled “Under­neath From Above”, But­ter­fly­soul­fire fuses archi­tec­tural aspi­ra­tions with hand­crafted orna­men­ta­tion for a range that has a def­i­nite direc­tion, all-​​while pro­gress­ing organ­i­cally. Dressed in hues of black and gray, the col­lec­tion appears dark, when it is actu­ally quite whim­si­cal. Leather, wool and silk might work together to cre­ate an edge, but scarves shaped after fairy wings and del­i­cately hand-​​knitted tanks have another story to tell. The col­lec­tion and its finely exe­cuted sil­hou­ettes con­trast an allur­ing soft­ness with a more mas­cu­line fit that is over the top, yet refined to a point that it is still acces­si­ble. Ulti­mately, design­ers Maria Thomas and Thoas Lind­ner have crafted a col­lec­tion that blends just the right amount of quirk with beau­ti­ful functionality.

Pic­tures from But­ter­fly­soul­fire