Under The Pilotto Umbrella

IT doesn’t get much bigger for a rising design star to see one of his creations on an internationally feted musician at MTV’s annual Video Music Awards - which is the happy position Peter Pilotto finds himself in as he prepares to show his spring/summer 2009 collection under the New Generation tag for the first time at London Fashion Week.

“We were very excited to see Rihanna wearing our pieces,” the eponymous Belgian designer, who runs his label with creative partner Christopher De Vos, tells us of the black and yellow strapless number the Umbrella singer wore to this year’s red carpet event. “We are open for any surprises! It makes us so happy that so many girls love them.”

Known for its stand-out prints and painstaking construction, Peter Pilotto is one to fall in lust with immediately. Having been inspired by scientific drawings and soft shapes for autumn/winter 2008-9 (a collection snapped up by Matches), things continue along a existential vein for the new season with an offering inspired, we’re told, by the work of artist David Altmejd.

“It’s a modern grotesque: distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal art characterized by an incongruous mixture of parts of minerals and animals interwoven with plants,” says Pilotto. “The colour contrast is between the subdued moth and the vibrant butterfly.”

Intrigued? Peter Pilotto is showing back-to-back with MeadhamKirchhoff at 9.30am tomorrow, September 18 - click back onto VOGUE.COM after the show to see all the photos, straight off the catwalk.

Source: Vogue

Cashmere and silk stole printed with monogramouflage motif created for Louis Vuitton by Takashi Murakami - 70% cashmere/ 30% silk - Red signature - 70″ x 56″ - As seen on Rihanna in September, 2008.

Retail price $725 Buy it on eBay

The Plume Feather Vest is a classic menswear tuxedo vest, complete with belt back… plus the fantastic addition of a gazillion skinny and fluffy ostrich feathers running down the front from shoulder to hem. A small equals a size 2 to 4. The fabric of the vest is silk twill, and it is lined. In black or white (the vest fabric of the white version is ivory).

Ass seen on Rihanna while shopping with Chris Brown and a new puppy in Manhattan on August 4, 2008. Buy it at InterMix.