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The clothing of the British designer Harry Pontefract often starts with a very specific obsession. Last year, for example, his fixation with Vintage Faux Fruit led him on a six -month search for plastic grapes, which he included in his latest collection in the form of a sleeveless dress with his hand with the stair -like bunches of them in shades of black and deep bordeaux. He describes the aesthetics of the piece as ‘cheap wealth’. Various items of clothing-including a slender, hand-sewn corset dress that pools under the ankles and a cloudy matching stable existence from long-haired sheepkins, which he chose from the herds of two female shepherds in Wales and the peak district of England. One of the animals, he says, was called Dilys. “It’s really about when something moves me or brings things into a new light,” says Pontefract, 36. He admits that “everyone calls me a bit crazy.”
Pontefract, a resident of Sheffield, now lives and works in an old shoe factory in the Hackney -neighborhood of East London. He began to collect unusual materials – ‘hoarding’, he says – as a child, and the attic and basement of his parents’ house are still full of boxes of his accumulated treasures. As a teenager, he and his friends would adjust their jeans with the help of his mother’s sewing machine, a hobby that became a calling when he registered for the fashion design program in the Central Saint Martins in London. His graduated collection from 2016 contained deconstructed substantiation-up cycled bras and silk negligible that suggestive slid from the body and were styled with layers of skin-colored tights. Post-repaying, during his six-year-old Stint in the design team in the fashion house Loewe in Paris, he continued to experiment with his one-off creations on the side before formally launching Ponte, that’s that Sold exclusively on Dover Street MarketTwo years ago.
Naast de schapenfleeces-die werden geblazen, geplaagd en gespoten door een kapper om het effect te creëren van “vage herinneringen, zodat je niet echt kunt zien waar de jurk eindigt en de achtergrond begint, zoals een Gerhard Richter schilderij,” zegt Pontefract, de nieuwe collectie, zijn vierde, zal een ras van handgeslagen brillo-rope-lengte van het gemotiveerde rope-rope-rope contain. “It is important that you cannot say what it is,” he says about that dress that you would never guess made of steel wool. “That is much more interesting: it leaves it to those who look at it to feel something.”
Together with such a museum-worthy appearance (the costume institute in the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York has just bought a pair of ponte panty, filled with polyester filling of old toys to look like jodhpurs), there are also more portable styles, including leds, a leather pants, a leather pants, a leather pants, a leather pants, a leather pants, a leather pants, a leather pants, a leather pants, a leather pants, a leather pants, a leather pants, a leather pants, one leds, a leather pants, a leather pants. Leather of the leather, a leather of the leather, a leather of the leather, a leather of the ledes, a leather of the ledes, a leather of the ledes, a leather of the ledes, a leather of the ledes, a leather of the ledes, a leather of death, a fixed wool. A drop-shoulder jacket with one breasts combined with wide pipes, it has a slouchy, modern fit and of course, a back story. A large silky patch sewn on the pants’ chair is “made of an old satin dress that I have found somewhere,” says Pontefract. “There is a light, sexual nature. You will not see it in a photo, but I know it is there. “
