Monday night presented Hans Ubbink his new winter 2012 collection at the Gasometer in Amsterdam. The designers chose eclectic elements and a classic twist.
With a fruity cocktails we sat together on lap seven rows of wooden benches in the large stately room. Before the show the band A Silent Express nummertje a heavy rock, of course Hans Ubbink.
As we used to Hans Ubbink he never chooses the beaten track. No standard pinstripe, but special proprietary print designs, new silhouettes and an eclectic mix of materials. Building on classic tailoring adds a cheeky twist to Hans Ubbink to take forward the new ‘new wave fussy “to put down.
Hans Ubbink collection
The show was a coming and going of alternating male and female models. Even Holland’s Next Top Model winner Tamara walked into the show. Besides the familiar twin-set and a combination jacket and skirt and jacket and pants, he brings this season’s jacket and dress as a deux-piece. For men, there are special variants of the deux-piece. Identical shirt with pants, shirt jacket identical, but the shirt with narrow tie or not worn under a suit in the same design.
The silhouettes range from slender to subsequently combined with wide, oversized styles. Wide, long jackets with double-breasted closure refer to the past, but have little relationship with the new classic. Skirts and dresses are just below or just above the knee. Besides long, slim trousers to the ankles, the new length for trousers to just, or mid-calf, for women and for the daring among men. The knitwear pieces with different shapes give a wide neck for winter atmosphere, depending on how worn elegant or just look grungy.
Silk blends, cashmere blends, wolblends, cotton blends, metal sequins, leather details, and various viscoses stretch qualities, finished in matte, glossy, hairy, smooth plains, jacquards, windows and digital prints are an eclectic whole. The time signature prints have a different approach: by rearranging existing decorative shapes to suit his own designs, innovative, art deco inspired prints created. Despite the wealth of designs, degenerate the looks in a visual violence, but eyes before very quiet because all the separate items of clothing the same design or even the same color scheme is used: beautiful natural shades to essential brown and black, while the finale correctly in the sign was rich, elegant colors like green, red and purple.
We fell in love with the gold sequin jacket with orange and red cover and the combination of sea blue sea green. Many three-quarter sleeves, straight lines for ladies dresses and thin ties. Interestingly, we found the funny details 2 different color gloves and flared trousers rolled.
