Maria Francesca Pepe SS15
Maria Francesca Pepe is easily one of our favourite jewellery designers, and always one we have to spot at London Fashion Week showrooms to see what’s coming up for the new season, for Spring Summer 15 it’s all about the city.
The visionary collection is inspired by the city skylines, graphic city maps, neon city lights, with art-deco and urban tribe references throughout.
The range includes 3 main stories: the more abstract and geometric ‘City Maps and Skylines’, the vibrant and comic ‘Neon Lights’ and lastly, the bold statement pieces composing the ‘Fashion Cities’.
With this collection MFP is exploring the notion of what makes a city; what icons and symbols have formed our interpretation of a city in the modern culture?
Maria says of the collection: “I spent years travelling across fashion cities and crowded places… one day I was listening to one of favourite songs by Chromatics ‘in the city’, when I started designing this collection.
“It’s to celebrate iconic urban surroundings and their graphic representations, which have become part of everybody’s imagination in the last decades. Think Martin Parr, Metropolis and Blade Runner.”
City Maps and Skylines features understated and more interpretative pieces, such as 40s inspired solid geometric rings and cuffs. When worn these pieces transform into quite literally stackable jewellery. This idea of physical interaction and connection within a city is also evident through the enamel outlines of deconstructed skylines, which are encrusted with a variety of Swarovski crystal shapes. The enamel is used in an abstract and graphic way within the Lu Xinjian inspired selection of thin cuffs, ring sets and ear cuffs, enhancing the sharp embellishments of this story; yet still maintaining the signature MFP pop-inspired designs.
The variety of shapes and colour is a key feature within the collection, encompassing each city’s individual spirit.
The Fashion Cities are characterised in a modern and chic way. For the more statement pieces, MFP has re-imagined the skylines with stereotypical symbols that identify with these places today. Whilst also keeping in mind the Art-Deco shapes that physically form the letters of some of the main fashion’s Mecca such as London, Milan, Paris, New York and Tokyo.
Each of these pieces represent snapshots of a city life through the eyes of Maria Francesca Pepe and it’s a stylish interpretation that we can’t wait to introduce into our wardrobe next season.
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