I've fallen in love with Mary Katrantzou's designs. Deep, deep love. Some outfits I feel like I
should find the excessive use of patterns and prints overbearing, but they all work so well.
As far as run way fashion goes, there's a lot of designs that people may love, but wouldn't really wear in every day life. Like in this Fall-Winter 2011-2012 collection (pictured left). While I absolutely adore the pieces individually, they seem like they'd be too intense to wear together like this anywhere other than the runway. Which is why I am swooning over Mary Katrantzou's clothing line for Topshop. While most of the dresses I adore have been scooped up already, there's still some cool pants and scarves left. They aren't too pricey, and with a bit of saving maybe one day I'll have my hands on one of her designs!
I think when paired with less patterned pieces (like the cutie pictured at the top), they're stunning. The Topshop collection seems to be a lot more accessible and easy to wear. They remind me of water colour paintings, especially the bell shape skirted dress pictured at the top of the page and the bottom right of this picture.I love interesting patterns that aren't necessarily symmetrical, They're kind of dreamy and whimsical.
