Award-winning designer Dion Lee has been flying the flag for Australian fashion since his collection debut in 2008. Adored the world over for his architectural approach to tailoring and luxurious choice of fabrics, Lee's contemporary cuts and artfully sculpted dresses will instantly update every look.
"My design team is just me basically," he said. "I kind of work by myself on all of the pieces and it is very intense. I do all of the pattern making myself so it is all time consuming." Dion Lee.
Lee graduated from the Sydney Institute of Technology's fashion school in 2007. His design aesthetic is inspired by the construction of clothing and his work is often structured and tailored, featuring functional detailing. In 2007 he won second place in the Crosier Eveningwear Award for a design inspired by the Tibetan Knot of Eternity. The dress was made from handmade rope and woven from over 200 balls of cotton yarn.
He was also awarded Westfield Fashion Graduate of the Year in August 2008 and in 2009 he received the Prix de Marie Claire award for the best up and coming designer.
A soft shirting and tailoring capsule, designed with ease and simplicity in mind, the collection focuses on wardrobe essentials that can be worn and worn again.
Cut is classic and colour palette is neutral, whilst maintaining Lee’s signature design details, such as functional hardware and emphatic cutting away of the typical silhouette. Spring 2011 consists of 15 styles, across shirts and dresses. Fabrications are limited to silks; georgette, double georgette and faille, and cottons; poplin, voile and silk cotton. Line II is designed to work back with Dion Lee mainline and stand alone, as its own entity.
(paragraph written by Susie of Style Bubble) I hesitate to call it a diffusion but instead, it hones in on the shirting and soft tailoring elements of his mainline collection - it's the wearable essence of Lee's aesthetic condensed into fifteen styles of shirts and dresses in colours of mostly black, nude, sky blue and cyan in the suitably breathable fabrics of silk georgette, faille, poplin and silk cotton. Just the listing those colours and fabrics is making me crave that climate of Sydney (at least to my memory) which makes even the simplest of a white shirt look utterly beautiful in the sunlight.
These are just a smattering of images from a whooping 200-page book entitled 'II' photographed by Bec Parsons and art directed by Kate Rogers.
These are just a smattering of images from a whooping 200-page book entitled 'II' photographed by Bec Parsons and art directed by Kate Rogers.
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