Four years ago, Hannah Wieland and her label Shrimps burst onto the London Fashion Weekscene with a line of pick’n’mix coloured faux fur coats. Fast forward and Shrimps is niche no more. With Alexa Chung and Kate Moss firm fans, Weiland found herself at a turning point: where’s next for a brand already so popular?
Keeping her fun-fur coats at the centre of the collection, the Londoner coloured her iconic design in millennial pink and fluoro green for spring summer 2018. This luminous combination was thread through the collection only to be broken up by the odd head-to-toe silver ensemble and monochrome shirting that was decorated with hand-ink drawings.
Romance is at the forefront of the young Londoner’s vocabulary as her collection was inspired by a recent trip to Italy where her fiancé Arthur Guinness proposed. Dresses, shirts and skirts were tethered by prints and embroidery inspired by her the sojourn.
'The pink silk dresses were inspired by a trip to Venice when I got proposed to by my boyfriend, and so they make me very happy. They are inspired by Venice at sunset when it turns pink, and the lime green is inspired by the acidic colour of British gardens in the summertime, and all the tulips are out.’ Weiland told The Debrief**.
Long and sweeping aptly sums up the look. Sheer party dresses and summer dresses with face-shaped broderie Anglais cut-outs came with dropped waists, trousers drooped to the floor, cold-shoulder blouses fell to expose the upper arm instead, and coats pooled like a train onto the ground. Crystal broaches and chunky costume jewellery gems embellished day and evening wear in kind to truss together the collection where the beauty distinguished them.
The more cerebral, pre-watershed pieces (of which there were few because all seemed apt for dancing the night away in) could be identified by the models who had dewy, glowy make-up. Those looks that were designated for late nights of debauchery were matched with models with lips slicked with glitter like they’d just spent the night smooching someone sequined.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.