Jonathan Saunders Pre-Fall 2012

[Stereo_Flo]

By Nicole Phelps​

Jonathan Saunders name-checked Charlotte Perriand at his pre-fall appointment not 24 hours after Julie de Libran did so at Louis Vuitton. For a designer like Saunders, who's known for his prints, the graphic nature of Perriand's furniture designs, interiors, and architecture, as well as her flare for texture, are seriously inspiring. Weave patterns borrowed from her oeuvre were enlarged and printed on dresses with a slightly sixties shape. Elsewhere, wallpaper prints decorated silk separates and sweaters were knit in oversize checks or basketweave designs. The warm, rich palette set the collection apart from the icy Miami pastels of Spring, as did a new development in the form of simpler "entry-level" price point dresses. Saunders excels at the special-occasion (or make that just "special") frock, but now he's getting serious about creating pieces for his clients' everyday lives. Waffle-weave knit sweaters and dresses were another smart step in that direction.

-style​

 

[Stereo_Flo]

-style​

 

[Deleted member 7575]

Looks like a Todd Oldham comeback collection for Target.

 

[Master Wood]

I absolutely just love Jonathan Saunders so much!

 

[Crying Diamonds]

Beautiful structured little jackets worn under coats. Great prints as usual, and great seperates, though I think some of the skirt hems need looking into..
This is my favourite look; it appears as if a dress at first glance, but it's a bodice and a skirt.

 

[Not Plain Jane]

Wow, some of those prints are gobsmackingly gorgeous! I love the full skirted printed dresses in post #2. To. Die. For.!

 

[Stereo_Flo]

by Sarah Mower​

“Now that print seems to have reached saturation point, I’m more interested in texture,” says Jonathan Saunders. That’s a jolting observation to hear from one of the young designers who led the British print revolution, perhaps—but Saunders has thought his way around the dilemma. In his pre-fall collection, he’s deployed woven and knitted surfaces to take up where print has left off—thus creating the kinds of patterns his growing band of wearers like so much. Still, there’s so much technical innovation in the warp and weft of his bouncy dirndl dresses and in the waffle-knit and big, checked overlapping stitches of his sweaters that there’s nothing predictable about them.

A book about the designer Charlotte Perriand, and her furniture of the 1930s, 40s, and 50s got Saunders thinking about the aesthetics of mid-century modern design. Drawn to the classic French designer’s basket-weave chairs, wooden screens, and what he describes as her “off-center” colors—saffron yellow, tomato red, duck-egg blue, teal, burgundy, scumbled gray—he landed the collection somewhere in the region of the retro taste occupied by Marni or Prada (if you look back as far as the 90s).

Yet not too closely. Saunders, though constantly inspired by artists and art movements, has reached the stage where he’s not intellectually bogged down in them. More importantly, he can pull off the sophisticated sleight of hand to make a collection inspired by furniture feel like a light, non-cumbrous part of a modern wardrobe. Essentially, he’s nailed down a contradictory desire of the moment: to be able to wear quite simple shapes that nevertheless have lots of eye-catching innovation in the color and fabric.

-vogue​

 

[KemAlnagdy]

love the colors , the turquoise one here is my favorite one
but i hate the shooties :S

 

[RedandNavy]

Lovely color scheme! I always love Jonathan Saunders but somehow I've never bought a piece. I might try to put my hands one of those sweaters though...