Vilebrequin fabricates the African spirit
MANILA, Philippines - This season Vilebrequin takes us into the thick of a thrilling African safari. Amid bird calls you see landscapes saturated with a rich palette of endless colors and lights that range from the paleness of dawn over the still savanna to the incandescence of the sun setting on the Okavongo Delta.
Do you know the legend of Little Guineafowl? Little Guineafowl was a painter whose gray-black plumage studded with tiny white sparkles was a source of pride that caused envy among all the animals of the savanna.
Just like the talented Little Guineafowl of Numibia, Vilebrequin has designed next summer’s swimsuits: Cape Town’s Fur Seals, the elephants of the Namib Desert, giraffes from the Tanzanian plains, majestic hundred year old baobab trees, and of course, the Namibian guinea fowl.
Around the bend of a trail we head for the villages of Ndebele, famed for their pictorial art, to hear even more legends whispered around a campfire. We gather inspiration not only from the wall paintings that decorate their huts which only woman are allowed to create, but also from their pagnes, a textile crafted from “wax” fabric which dates to the arrival of the first Europeans in western Africa. Vilebrequin’s latest collection is designed like a voyage of discovery through the African bush.
In the Philippines, Vilebrequin is exclusively distributed by Stores Specialists, Inc. (SSI) and is located at Greenbelt 5 and Rustan’s Makati.
