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WITCH CRAFT WO MAN SHIP MAAIKE MEKKING A/W 2010-11 TRANSITION, DUALITY AND NOSTALGIA ARE AT THE HEARTLAND OF MAAIKE MEKKING’S AUTUMN/WINTER 2010-11 COLLECTION ‘WITCH-CRAFT-WO-MAN-SHIP’. THIS SEASON MEKKING PRESENTS A FERVENT, MYTHICAL LANDSCAPE OF SEPARATES; REFERENCING TIME AND RITUAL, EVOKING THE ATMOSPHERE OF FILMS SUCH AS BADLANDS (1973) AND CHRISTIANE F (1981). * JOURNEYING US THROUGH AN APPROPRIATION OF MASCULINE AMERICAN CLASSICS; THE LEATHER BIKER JACKET, A WHITE TEE SHIRT AND DENIM JEANS, MEKKING CREATES A SPIRITED WARDROBE OF MODERN FEMININITY AND PALATABLE EDGINESS. * WEARABLE, ELEGANT AND SPIRITED GARMENTS IN SHADES OF CHARCOAL, SAND, DENIM, BLUSH AND OCHRE CITE THE RURAL VISTAS OF MIDDLE AMERICA. GLIMPSES OF BLACK ARE SEEN THROUGH HAND-STENCILED PRINTS, ZIP DETAILING AND ENLARGED METAL POPPERS. * MATERIALS DIVERSE IN TEXTURE AND WEIGHT EVOKE BOTH A PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL TREK: THE INDISPENSABILITY OF DENIM AND JERSEY, THE FRIVOLITY OF CHIFFON, THE COMPLEXITY OF CAMEL WOOL AND CORDUROY AND THE SPLENDOUR OF SHEEPSKIN. * CALLING UPON A RECURRING THEME THROUGHOUT HER CAREER, MEKKING PRESENTS HER A/W 2010-11 COLLECTION WITH AN INTIMATE GROUP OF INTERDISCIPLINARY TALENTS, COLLABORATING WITH ARTISTS TANIA LESHKINA, JOSEPH XORTO AND ANASTASIA FREYGANG. * SINCE COMPLETING A WOMENSWEAR MA AT THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART, THE DUTCH-BORN, LONDON-BASED DESIGNER HAS GAINED COVERAGE FROM NUMEROUS PUBLICATIONS INCLUDING ZOO, MARIE CLAIRE, NYLON, THE GUARDIAN, STYLE MAGAZINE, DAZED AND CONFUSED AND I-D. THROUGH WORKING FOR ALEXANDER MCQUEEN, HUMANOID AND ALBERTA FERRETTI, SHE GAINED SUFFICIENT EXPERIENCE TO TAKE THE HELM AT HER OWN SIGNATURE COLLECTION WITCH CRAFT WO MAN SHIP MAAIKE MEKKING A/W 2010-11 THANK YOU MICHAEL AVELING, PHILIPPA HARRINGTON-GRIFFIN, ALICIA AIMEE, CHRISTOPHER JAMES, KINGY HSU, SUZIE CRISFIELD, LOVA MOLLER, SUE LEE, PIA BLEIHT, ANNA-KARIN FORSGREN, MAGINHILD KENNEDY, MARK VAN BEEK FILM DIRECTION - TANIA LESHKINA POST - MICHAEL AVELING HAIR - TOMIHIRO KONO @ BALCONY JUMP USING KIEHLS MAKE-UP – NAT VAN ZEE USING SHU UEMURA PERFORMANCE MONIK GABRIELA DORNIAK POEM ANASTASIA FREYGANG MUSIC JOSEPH XORTO