Creating her new range, Idol’s Eye, Cybele Wiren has been anything but idle. While 8 months pregnant she still looked gorgeous and hosted a Spring Summer showing and sample sale at her K Road workroom on Wednesday night, 29 June.
Creating her new range, Idol’s Eye, Cybele Wiren has been anything but idle.
While 8 months pregnant she still looked gorgeous and hosted a Spring Summer 2011/12 showing and a sample sale at her K Road workroom on Wednesday night, 29 June.
Her 18th collection, Idol’s Eye is named after a gem discovered in 1906 amongst the fortune of a Turkish Sultan as the eye of a sacred statue in the Temple of Benghazi, then made by American jeweler Harry Winston, and was then sold to Mrs. May Bonfils Stanton, a widow who lived alone in her palatial mansion and who wore it, mounted as the center stone in a diamond necklace surrounded by eighty-six other diamonds, to her solitary breakfast every morning.
Inspired by this fantastic true story, Cybèle designed Idol’s Eye with a nod to the Futurist school art movement that valued technology and science. It comes through in pieces with mulit-hued shards of glass reflected through piceless prisms with colourful prints on white silk shifts.
Key pieces are billowy wide legged trousers in solid or sheer georgettes, matched with a satin trimmed body suit or a French knicker under a flowing floor length gown.
The collection inhabits a characteristically diverse colour palette, richly mixing slate grey, dusk blue, plum and nude alongside timeless black and ivory. These timeless tones are highlighted with gemstone brights of citrine, rose, garnet, jade, and topaz.
Below: the Cybele workroom.
Matthew Thomson of NZ made and owned whisky brand, Thomson.
Story and photos Megan Robinson using Casio EXH30BK.
30 June 2011
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