C-Neeon

LONDON, September 21, 2005
By Sarah Mower
C-Neeon, Clara Kraetsch and Doreen Schulz's new art-based label out of Berlin, was the winner of the 2005 Hyères Festival, a prestigious Europe-wide young-designer competition. What they showed charmed and impressed the judges with the energy and integrity of its twenty-first century adherence to Bauhaus design principles—all bright hand-blocked prints and graphic shapes reimagined for today's street and club generation.

This season, C-Neeon accepted an invitation to present in London, a platform that, if not exactly rivaling the full klieg-lit fashion exposure of the Paris runway, at least provides a second-tier transitional space to set young designers on their way. Their collection—mostly asymmetric tops with block-colored and diagonally striped panels over roller-printed leggings and jeans—channeled the aesthetic of early German modernism without looking like an art history thesis. Taken apart, the T-shirtdresses, leggings, and hooded sweatshirts, stamped with bold teal, red, black, and cream graphics looked like commercial propositions. That's what London's Topshop, Britain's biggest youth retailer thinks, anyway. The company commissioned C-Neeon to design a mini-line.

Style.com

Style File Blog

november 22, 2009

Social intelligence

Selma Blair, Woman of Simple Tastes?

05:11 PM
It was a reunion of sorts: Ginnifer Goodwin, Selma Blair, a host of fabulous Bulgari jewels,...

Dept. of culture

The Pratt Gallery’s Shades of Green

04:11 PM

Q&A

Delfina Delettrez Fendi Isn’t Afraid Of The Dark

04:11 PM

more from the style file blog ›