Wednesday, 23 November 2011
Monday, 21 November 2011
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Dress / Flik Hall, Necklace (Styled as headpiece) / Jane Bowler, Ear Cuff / Miranda Keyes for Flik Hall, Ring / Ada Zanditon
Skirt (styled as cape) / Eleanor Amoroso, Bra / Miranda Keyes for Flik Hall, Leggings / Eugene Lin
Jewellery / Miranda Keyes for Flik Hall
Thursday, 17 November 2011
FASHION 156
Flik Hall’s spring/summer collection is a playful collection of mix and match separates, which is something that I can always get on board with. The kaleidoscopic patterns and bold cut out shapes are softened by pretty pastel colours and sweet sleeveless shirts.
Particularly striking are the trompe-l’oeil midi dresses featuring a stripe of pattern down the middle and a light pastel around the side. It’s a collection that seems very finished, and with a distinctly linear feel, with each piece feeling unique at the same time. And as an aside, I can see the model’s hair pattern that looks like seaweed imprints on the beach, becoming a new obsession that I will be desperately trying to emulate in the future.
Image source: Flik Hall
Posted by: Katie Tillyer
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London based designer Flik Hall’s SS’12 collection, I Hear You Calling, is an avant-garde recreation of wearable staples infused with intricate patterns and design elements reminiscent of the shapes and textures of an octopus. Having interned at House of Holland and Giles Deacon after completing her studies at the prestigious Central Saint Martins school, Hall developed her love of prints, which came into fruition during her first collection in SS’10.
A year later and Hall described her most recent collection as “a range emblazoned with high-tech looking prints in globular shapes and fleshy or inky hues”. Having previously worked directly with real octopi for an accessories collection has given Hall the insight and knowledge to recreate the sea creature’s aesthetic through colour, movement and texture. Tentacle-esque patterns, harsh cut outs and fabrics such as silks and leathers are juxtaposed together forming hybrid creatures with oceanic connotations, much like a cacaelia (half octopus, half human).
Directed by Ashley Joiner, the film for I Hear You Calling, is much like Hall’s designs, a mixture of real life and fantasy, infusing elements of mixed media with the fluid movements of mermaid-like model, Claudia Devlin, a red-headed beauty who—with her elfin features—is a real life Ariel, stuck between the earth and the sea, while Hall’s designs are a second skin for her eight legged alter-ego.
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Thursday, 10 November 2011
LONDON CONFIDENTIAL
Open Water: Flik Hall
Mollie Lloyd talks to the designer about her S/S collection and why octopi is where it's at
HAVE you ever thought that an octopus could be sexy? Neither did we, but London-based designer Flik Hall begs to differ. Hall’s esoteric Spring/Summer offerings, herald the coming tide of what’s set to be great about fashion next season; namely a fresh, phantasmagorical take on prints and a continued devotion to new ways to wear old staples.
From sweet, sea-spray coloured sleeves, edged with that pulpy tentacle print, to functional harem-style jumpsuits and structured bodies, peppered with sucker-like eyelets.
Take Hall’s spin on the classic tubular pencil dress. Flatteringly tailored and sliced with laser-sharp precision, a bold cut-out panel reveals an arc of skin across the torso (fashion’s new erogenous zone?). It’s modest yet daring and without as much as a hint of cleavage in sight.
But what about the octopus?
“I worked directly with real octopi for an accessories collection,” Hall says, “so the textures that I used throughout my Spring/Summer collection resonate closely with the palette and touch of an actual octopus.” The result is a range emblazoned with high-tech looking prints in globular shapes and fleshy or inky hues. Set against panels of skin-like sheer or leathery fabrics, the result is undeniably mollusc, but it works.
“I find that sometimes I might not realise that something has inspired or even interested me,” she says, “but it emerges later as a much stronger idea… I find it fascinating that we are drawn to certain things but we don’t know why.”
Inspiration for previous collections of Hall’s have ranged from her father’s fastidious attention to timekeeping through to graveside eulogies to infants in Mexico. As part of that collection, titled ‘Mannequin Parade’, the stand out piece was a necklace made of life-sized plastic babies’ limbs. Not to everybody’s taste, but a bold move in the direction of reasoned outlandishness that still characterises her designs.
It makes stylistic sense that Hall had worked at Giles, (for whom the term ‘statement’ could have been made for) before starting her own label as a graduate. “I loved the energy at Giles and how experimental it all was,” Hall tells us, “It was rewarding because we were working on beautiful pieces, and when they were all finished it felt like it was really worth it… But if I never tried to start my own label, I’d always be wondering ‘what if?’”
As any artist worth their weight in salt knows, there’s no creativity without tension, and this latest collection swims the line between pretty and ethereal and pared-down utility. From sweet, sea-spray coloured sleeves, edged with that pulpy tentacle print, to functional harem-style jumpsuits and structured bodies, peppered with sucker-like eyelets.
Hall is keen to expand her label into footwear, eventually, but with the label still relatively young she is keen to be creative when it comes to business as well as fashion. What about doing a show? (Florence Welch popping out of a shell to provide the soundtrack, as seen at Chanel, seems to fit so perfectly.) “I like the idea of doing a show, but I don’t feel it is the only way to market a brand,” she says with suspense.
Either way, Hall’s Spring/Summer ’12 collection is certainly healthy and humorous reply to the ever-recurring nautical trend that crops up every spring. With such delectably quirky items, we’re sure you’ll agree that calamari is all well and good, but who wants to eat seafood when you can wear it like this?
IDOL MAGAZINE
Since fashion label Flik Hall hit the scene in 2009, the amount of press attention has been on-going. A graduate of Central St. Martins with work experience from House of Holland and Marios Schwab under her belt, it would appear that Hall was already on her way to success. With publications including Grazia, Vogue Turkey and Elle US featuring her designs it’s no wonder the SS 2012 collection has been surrounded by hype and for good reason.
The latest collection is unique and unusual, focused on the ethereal look of cacaelia (half octopus, half human). Tentacle-like patterns splattering and panelling the layered silk gowns and leather shift dresses, give an eerie yet tough feel to the edgy label. Playsuits and jumpsuits in swirling prints of nude and muted tones with harsh cut-outs to reveal pure flesh, bring sea-like connotations to the waters of the human eye.
Bringing in a touch of shock appeal, an electric blue structured blouse and a pair of jodhpur-style trousers shake up the rhythm of the aquatic theme, giving variety to the mix.
With luxury and innovative fabrics featured within the range, from neoprene (most commonly used for wetsuits) to sheer chiffon the oxymoron of incorporating stronger materials with the more delicate reinforces the true hybrid direction of this otherworldy designer.
Flik Hall puts sea sick out of the picture and sea cool into the waves of the fashion world.
Wednesday, 2 November 2011
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PHOTOGRAPHY / Luke Nugent
STYLING / Matthew Fox
MAKE-UP / Ole Elias Høve
HAIR / Erika De La Barquera
STYLING ASSISTANT / Emma Semple
RETOUCHING / Jon Emmony
Tuesday, 1 November 2011
Spindle Magazine
Flik Hall’s SS12 collection was inspired by obscure close up imagery of octopi. The collection embodies prints of abstracted structural forms of octopi in fleshy tones that twist over leather, emblazoned with eyelets to represent the octopi’s suckers. Miranda’s unique choice of materials caught Flik’s attention and they began designing a visceral accessories collection made from real octopus.
The collection of pieces includes a bra made entirely from tentacles; a crown that cast underresin is restored to the beauty the octopi hold in the water. This ornate material becomes ambiguously enticing when preserved in a sold state as part of rings and chocker’s, amongst other intricate pieces. Letting both the form of the tentacles and the curve of the body dictate the end result, these pieces ally themselves seamlessly with the body.
These pieces draw on intricate and naturally occurring forms; ordered formation of tentacles recast into wearable art challenging, by their composition the established conventions of bodily adornment.
Sunday, 30 October 2011
FLIK HALL SS12 Fashion Film
Model: Claudia Devlin @ Premier Model Management
Cinematography: Jodie Herbage
Music: Phaedra
Editing: Tim Deiling
Director: Ashley Joiner
Friday, 21 October 2011
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