Hyères 2013 is officially over (the competition ran from April 26-29 - blink and ya missed it!) and 29-year-old Finnish designer Satu Maaranen is the grand prize winner. Menswear designer Camille Kunz took home a special prize awarded by the label Chloé and Shanshan Ruan took home the "prix du public de la ville d'Hyères" (public prize of the city of Hyères.) You can see some details from Maaranen's collection, "Garment in Landscape," below:
I really love Maaranen's collection. I get hints of Viktor & Rolf (am I allowed to say that?) but a bit more artful; note how the design is actually an oversized shirt worn with arm tubes (uh, technical term?) that meet the shirt sleeve. And that bow! Talk about bringing a "pop of color" to your face. Oh, and one more outburst - those shoes! I'm dying. I want them now. Oh, shit, one more (more) outburst - those hats! So #fashion. Read more about Maaranen here and here.
One of my favorite details from backstage is of the model's fingers for Camille Kunz. They painted the tips green! This nail art is just sO neXt leVeL. Read more about the festival at BoF and watch the runway presentation here. Images in this post c/o Filep Motwary and Saskia Lawaks for Vogue Paris; click image for source. And here's one more slideshow from L'Express, while we're at it.
Read all of my coverage of Hyères 2013 here.
