Slovenian designer Peter Movrin studied at the University of Ljubljana and graduated in 2011. He resides in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Peter quickly became recognized by the media for his conceptual and unisex pieces with massive silhouettes. His work has won numerous prizes.
Issues of Vogue for me were a form of escape from the real hard world of a butcher’s son. Sometimes, I would go shopping with my grandma to Trieste, and I would see them all lined up in a kiosk and she would buy them for me. Or when I went to visit my aunt in Canada, I also got my hands on all of the magazines. Editorials, glossy campaigns and famous people wearing fabulous clothes at parties – it was a crazy world for a child that spent his mornings at school and his afternoons and weekends at the butcher shop.
Peter Movrin woman is this sensational lady from Wien, Mrs Tea, she inspired me so much.
The designer first studied the textile to understand the garments in-depth. Peter Movrin crafts his designs with a meticulous attention to detail. Leather and wool are his favorite materials. To get the uncommon effect, he blends two traditional fabrics with a non-traditional material. In the design process, the designer likes to treat natural and synthetic fabrics with various methods like using heat, chemicals or other techniques by combining innovation and tradition. Peter wants to create adornments for a body instead of the designs. His multifunctional garments are meant to last like a great piece of jewellery. The craftsmanship, couture elements and handmade details make the creations resemble a piece of art.
The brand’s style is between dreams and reality. “Lu Gedigte Perlaopis” is the Bijoux that never leaves you cold. You always have an emotional response to a piece of jewelry, it carries so much family heritage, and when you have the honor to receive it, you are in some way initiated into a society. I believe the same reaction should be expected from the garments. As the new goes, it’s a play on words that touched me during the collection.
The collection’s basic premise is that clothing should be regarded as adornment for body, as precious as jewelry, thus transcending the norms of the fast and furious ready-to-wear.
A quintessential bourgeois artifact and a pearl necklace can produce an effect much like that of a body mutilation and a scar, which is the most intimate adornment of them all. While researching the Ethiopian tribe’s practice of body scarification or decoration, the polished sculptures of Constantin Brâncuși kept popping up.
The result is a very tactile monochromatic collection, where through the manipulation and deformation the garments become hidden jewelry pieces.
Some of his work will soon appear in a Hollywood blockbuster. The monochromatic clothing from the latest collection “Lu Gedigte Perlaopis” were manipulated and deformed to make them look like hidden jewelery pieces. Peter Movrin fused by hand the pearls into the designs. In the final look, the exotic print and the pearls inserted inside the piece made the garment unique and special. The theme for this collection was based on the research of Ethiopian tribes practicing body scarification and decoration and on the polished sculptures of Constantin Brâncuși. Peter Movrin believes that there should be the same emotional response to a piece of clothing as to a jewelery piece.
The collection to me it’s an invitation to celebrate, like the final look, where the pearls diffuse into an exotic print as a shout out to the wilderness, to the lost paradise and to the painter Emil Nolde. The most interesting detail must be the so-called pearls, they were one by one meticulously squeezed into the garment by my own fingers. It takes forever, but it’s so beautiful.
The collection cited a fashion-forward and exclusive outing. The talented designer Peter Movrin articulates depth into his creations to make them become a living object of art.
Peter Movrin “Lu Gedigte Perlaopis” Campaign
Photographer: Maya Nightingale
Peter Portrait: Matej Ograjenšek
Makeup Artist: Špela Ema Veble
Model: Barbara Sor (ModelGroup)
Roses: Dafnis
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