Lonesome Nomore AW2011/12

                                     'High Gravity Days' by SIMCIKOVA                                  

Photography: Tom Hayton      

Make-up: Lucie Worship

Model: Ania Wu

Neoprene jacket, 

Skirt with dense organza flounces creating shapes of faces, 

Tin and glass necklace

This is the first complete collection designed by SIMCIKOVA and has been the greatest challenge so far since it wasn't based on a concrete visual concept. 

It is a mix of a literary journey, travelled through the books 'Slapstick or Lonesome Nomore', 'Immortality' and 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' as well as an exhausting investigation about the face as identity, plastic shape and channel through which the interior and abstract emotions are communicated to the exterior world.

'Lonesome Nomore' represents sociability, interaction and the concretion of emotions.

The Main element to the collection is the shape of the face emerging from garments such as felt-jackets, flounced skirts and chiffon blouses. 

On the other hand certain extreme emotions are intended to be expressed as a physical phenomenon. 

'Lightness of being' refers to happiness, carelessness and togetherness, where the common physical feeling and perception of the world is of bright colours, weightlessness and movement. 

The other contrast is 'High Gravity Days' where depression sets in, the feelings of sadness, anger and loneliness. 

These emotions commonly have the physical effect of no energy, no movement and an psychological darkness clouds up the mind.