ONE SPECIAL SUMMER..
The Andersen & Lauth spring 2010 summer collection is called " One Special Summer ". We were browsing through our favorite bookstore near our studio in Reykjavik and found a book made by Jacqueline Bouvier ( later Jackie Kennedy ) and her sister Lee Bouvier about their summer in Europe in the golden age of travel.
We are now in the beginning of the sketching period, it´s our favorite time, we sit and sketch, talk, not talk, listen to music, look at films, read books, go through our research done over the last 6 weeks, sometimes amazing thing happen, sometimes nothing at all, sometimes the day just passes by in pure cruelty. We inspire each other, we start playing with colors, embroideries, small pieces of cloths, all the things we Love and admire....
It takes us 60 days to sketch a collection, it is a tense period, it sucks the energy out of you, leaves you dry like running 3 marathons without stopping. It is also a magical period. Our clothes are worn by a lot of people, they are created with emotions, we want them to be worn with emotions. For some reason they also have emotional response with others, maybe it passes on like this bring forward stuff...who knows. Not us, anyway. We just enjoy being able to do what we love, We Love it at least when it is ready.
We Love the period where our proto types are made. We see a collection slowly brought to life. It included so many great people, our co-workers in the sample rooms, the hand embroiderers that passes this amazing skill from generation to generation, they make our proto types by hand with the same care and love it was sketched.
The spring collection " One Special Summer " is all about mood. Traveling in the fifties and sixties much more of an adventure then it is today. You did not go for a night or two...it was more of a summer travel. Endless adventures in new and exotic places, trains, boats and luxury traveling like crossing the atlantic with a ocean liner and it seems that time simply moved slower in these days than today.
People dresses up for traveling, planed it carefully, selected the wardrobe, stylish but sophisticated. They sent postcards home....
It was an ode to discovery and fine living.
Bring your passport...
Over the next weeks we will every now and then add to this blog the progress of the collection from sketching to showing it.....we will even share a few secrets with you....
Love G + K
