US model Lindsey Wixson presents a creation for fashion house Fendi as part of the spring/summer 2014 ready-to-wear collections during the fashion week in Milan on September 19, 2013.
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Fendi's Karl Lagerfeld offered a palette of shades from pastel to fluorescent on Thursday September 19 in his latest collection at Milan Fashion Week, with designs inspired by computer chip geometry.
The keyword for the Spring Summer 2014 show was layering of fabric, each layer with subtly different shades, making the dresses look something like the strips of colour handed out at a paint shop.
Skirts and a cocktail dress of mirrored glass sparkled in the spotlight like disco balls, the hard edges softened by the use of velvet for blouses.
Lagerfeld said in a note that he had been inspired by the "visual web communication world" and the angular patterns used bore a resemblance to an integrated electronic circuit.
"The collection is a kind of easy 'Dreamwear'", he said, its other-worldly nature enhanced at the catwalk show by the models wearing identical black wigs and walking almost robotically as if on a factory production belt. - AFP RELAXNEWS