CIMONE x Lauren Manning
Lauren Manning creates 'Earth Patterns' from Google Earth where she focusses on the intersection of man-made geometries with the raw beauty of nature. This creates tactile imagery with interesting contradicting color schemes. The beautiful SS17 collection of CIMONE is highly focussed on tactility and contradictions - the tension between polished and raw elements.
Lauren Manning is a multi-disciplinary designer based in LA & New York. From an early age, Lauren was fascinated by the combination of problem solving and making which lead to studies in architecture and design. Lauren developed a passion for telling stories through data and translated these data into printmaking.
One evening, while browsing through Google Earth on her iPad Lauren became intrigued by the beautiful images she found - and this is how her series ‘Earth Patterns’ started. Lauren realized that she could take photographs, framing beautiful colors, angles, textures and patterns, within the vast satellite image library of Google Earth. While focusing mostly on the parts where man-made lines and circles touch upon raw landscapes, she frames each image with a delicate balance of space, scale and shapes. The colors in the images are not manipulated, relying entirely on naturally occurring colors, or the occasional glitch from the satellites.
The beautiful statement pieces of the SS17 collection designed by Carli Pearson, founder and Creative Director of CIMONE, showcase a web of contradictions - control versus chaos, high-end production paired with repurposed textures. Nothing is what it seems at first glance, everyday items are reframed and reconfigured into covetous pieces. The clothes themselves contain transformative elements to be worn inside out and back to front.
The SS17 collection continues to showcase signature CIMONE style: confidence, irreverence and fun with a refined and considered edge. This collection offers features of free flowing exaggerated movements, overblown voluminous shapes and a tactile fabric mix. The collection features interactive embellishment moving with the body and reacting to the wearer in unique ways, never appearing the same way twice. A subtle and muted whitewash is brought to life with a vibrant injection of juxtaposed bold color, appearing as splashes and stripes.
Featuring
Fashion design // Carli Pearson
Photography (non-fashion) // Lauren Manning
Fashion photography // Rhiannon Adam
Model // Liza Molnar