WHAT better Christmas present can there be than a line-up of Britain's fashion talent? That's exactly what contributing fashion director Kate Phelan brought to the pages of Vogue for the December issue, on sale now.
"The idea was to celebrate the people, the clothes - like the Aran sweater - for it to be a celebration of things in fashion that are always cool and relevant. That's where it started from," says Phelan who once again joined forces
Picture credit: Tim Walker
with photographer Tim Walker to bring the wondrous story to life.
"We had the jumbo chalk pinstripe to represent Savile Row; the bowler hats in military green to represent World War II; and the romantic nighties representing Thomas Hardy heroines like Tess of the D'Urbervilles," explains Phelan, adding The Railway Children, Gainsborough portraits, the barn owl, women in literature; epic landscapes and faded, country-house grandeur to her list of references.
See Alexander McQueen's incredible autumn/winter 2014 creations stand gracefully amid a harvest field-cum-graveyard; Christopher Kane's brain at work, in a clever photographic riff on his own designs; Kate Moss become the ultimate land girl; Simone Rocha become her very own bubble-gum pin-up; and Edie Campbell as mud-splattered jockey.
"We don't realise how exotic we are," says Phelan - and her shoot is certainly a beautiful depiction of that.
Via @FreshMindWorld
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