#winde rienstra

Looking amaaazing, she donned a structured, velvet-trimmed camouflage dress by Lily Attwood, graduate of the Fashion Print Course at Central Saint Martins!

Gaga’s pink paper origami corsage is by British milliner and florist Clea Broad...

...while her Lego heels with grey pom-poms belong to Winde Rienstra’s Spring/Summer 2013 “Ithaka” runway. 

The wedges are made of actual white LEGO bricks, fastened together and fixed with knitted laces. The choice for the bricks was because Winde was “looking for a new, extreme and fun way of creating”.

The bespoke Shellbrella, she was carrying, was custom made especially for her by young London-based designer, Luke Brooks. I took my virtual private jet last night and a paid a brief visit to Luke’s design studio, he’s been working on developing since his graduation from the Central Saint Martins MA Fashion course in 2012.

The Shellbrella is a “simple idea which was executed quite straightforwardly, albeit with a serendipitous twist in the form of the handle, which was originally an artisanally-crafted walking stick”.

Luke used relatively few materials: “polyurethane foam (the ordinary kind, which is used to fill gaps in buildings), the aforementioned section of walking-stick-wood, which has seen something like honeysuckle or ivy grow around it to produce that spiral effect, and a few different kinds of paints (n.b. the inside of the Shellbrella has a subtly pearlescent finish)”.

“The Shellbrella was really developed as the final form itself was being made; as the shape was carved from the foam, and as the resulting structure was looked at and held in relation to a body and the space in which it happened”, Luke told me: “In that sense, perhaps it is not so much of a “designed” item, but rather it reflects something of the organic growing process of that which it emulates”.

I was also interested about the whole experience behind the bespoke piece: