Marianne Fassler has released the lookbook for her S/S16 collection, titled “Where have all the flowers gone?”

Shown last month at Joburg Fashion Week, Fassler says her new range is a reaction to the current zeitgeist. It explores border crossing and migration, globalisation and disenfranchisement. The range also crosses inter-disciplinary borders, where design and craft meets art.



In the collection, vintage military clothing (a recurring theme in Fassler’s work), playfully interact with prints reminiscent of paper cut outs and collage - a naive escape from the harsh realities. The design team at Leopard Frock originated most of these prints. The disruption of print, texture and silhouette is always present in the signature Leopard Frock garments, but this year it seems to be on steroids: somehow not making sense but always relevant and current.

Fassler has once more collaborated with the Zimbabwe bead weavers from Marigold Beads in a project that was launched at the FNB Jhb Art Fair. The collaboration was inspired by Burundi artist, Serge Alain Nitegeka, whose powerful work deals with the same topics of border crossing, migration and disenfranchisement.


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