This year marks the 90th anniversary of Akris, the Swiss fashion house known for its sleek, refined and sensual minimalism, and Sunday September 30th the house celebrated with a 90-look fashion show and cocktail party, speeches and royalty as Charlene, Princess of Monaco arrived wearing a rust-colored Akris shift embodying the house’s sleek minimalistic aesthetic secret since 1922…
Their SS13 defile was set within a Roberto Marx inspired garden – a Brazilian landscape architect whose designs of parks and gardens made him world famous thanks to his modern vision and passion for curved and sensual shapes….
See the inspiration? ( photo of Roberto Burle Marx by Luiz Knud Correia de Araujo)
Designer Albert Kriemler who’s frequently inspired by architecture, chose this garden theme for the anniversary, referencing the work of Roberto Burle Marx explaining that “He’s the first one who broke up the straight line”.
Models swayed through the tropical landscape in sheath dresses, tuxedos, parkas in mostly natural colors as well as fluorescent shades of pinks….We love Kriemler’s passion for modernism designing clothes for today’s women that exert a flatteringly powerful elegance…
We sat behind Princess Charlene…
We listened to birthday speeches…
We celebrated at the cocktail party…
And we are now looking forward to reading a copy of Akris 1922 – 2012 by Valerie Steele, a luxe coffee table book which explores the house’s signatures throughout the last nine decades….which apparently features runway images, exclusive behind-the-scenes footage, sketches, photographs of inspiration and all that brings us closer to the mind and spirit of Akris….
