An excerpt from my latest interview for Blend with designer Peter Pilotto…read the full article here.
…..Born in Austria and now based in London, 30-year-old Peter Pilotto is a fashion designer who has created a highly personal, imaginary world, designing clothes that could blend into the set of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and outfit a few she-bots, or serve as the 21st century interpretation of characters in an H.G. Wells novel. Dresses might look like Art Deco skyscrapers, or be printed to look like the interior of a clocktower or a Victorian time machine. As though time travelers themselves, his clothes are the product of what might happen if an Egyptian princess did a tango with a Soviet contructivist graphic designer. As a fashion designer, Pilotto is like a science fiction author creating a varnished, slightly apocalyptic vision of the future. Just as Luke Skywalker’s universe in Star Wars takes place a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, Pilotto’s setting is a not-so-distant future composed of dwellers in softly draped tunics, pajama pants emblazoned with fiery galaxies and nebulous clouds of gas and wrap vests that Skywalker might have worn, all in a saturated color palette of stars exploding…..
[photo courtesy Peter Pilotto, Autumn/Winter 08-09]
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