As dawn was breaking…
For SS12 Spijkers en Spijkers were inspired by the story of Scheherazade, Queen and storyteller of One Thousand and One Nights.
Scheherazade had perused the works of the poets and knew them by heart; she had studied philosophy and the sciences, arts and accomplishments; and she was pleasant and polite, wise and witty.
The tale goes that every day King Shahryar would marry a new bride, and every day he would send yesterday’s wife to be beheaded. This was done in anger, having found out that his first wife had betrayed him. He had killed one thousand women by the time he was introduced to Scheherazade.
At their wedding night, the King lay awake and listened with awe as Scheherazade told her first story. The night passed by, and Scheherazade stopped in the middle of the story but didn’t finish it before morning came and so the king let her live to finish it the next evening. But that night, she started a new one, more exciting and again didn’t finish it before dawn was breaking. This kept on for one thousand and one nights till Scheherazade had no more tales to tell him. During all these nights, the King had fallen in love with Scheherazade, let her live and made her his Queen.
This girl and the world from which she comes inspired Spijkers en Spijkers to make this sparkling collection, bringing out the cleverness and witty that makes women more intriguing then beauty alone.
The designs in this collection are composed of the elements of Oriental geometry. The use of these Arabic geometrics gives the work of the designers a new direction as it was before influenced mainly by western geometrics. The two geometric styles have the same origin, but their appearance is a world of difference. For those who want to read the metaphor, Spijkers en Spijkers brought these two worlds together as a coherent whole.
Rhombus shapes and Penrose figures are used to create the graphic patterns of straight dresses and skirts, elaborated in various combinations of soft tones and contrasting colours such as lime yellow, coral, Oriental blue, crystal pink, Sahara beige, ivory, and black. 3/4 length trousers and slouchy jackets in crinckle satin give the collection an elegant and easy touch. The Penrose figures are Ancient Arabic but translated in a modern way by using materials like techno linen, cotton lurex, silk twill and cotton blends.