Marios Schwab autumn/winter 2010/11 collection

By Hilary Alexander, Fashion Director at London Fashion Week Published: 6:22PM GMT twenty-two February 2010

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Marios Schwab, the Greek-Austrian engineer formed in London, revisited his childhood and his Tyrolean past at London Fashion Week currently in a pick up that translated folklore in a all contemporary, roughly unconventional manner.

One of a younger era of artisan-craftsman designers, Schwab explored the judgment of the dirndl, the corset-laced bodice and the normal embroideries one associates with flattering immature maidens in The Alps, or sky forfend, Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music.

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But this was no reconstitute for a complicated "Heidi". Schwab used silk charmeuse, Loden wool, silk taffetas and teddy-bear fabrics, to emanate a entirely complicated conformation shifted the folkloric in to a new, fascinating dimension.

A low-cut bodice was cut underneath the bust, over a white, full-sleeved shirt, and associated to short, bell-shaped skirt. Wide belts, sparse with changed stones and crystals, or perplexing lacing, drew the eye to a really tangible waist.

Cropped boleros, with a wave-cut only on top of the dcolletage, emphasised the torso even further. The "dirndl" neckline was echoed in coats, in a Steiff, teddy bear-wool, belted, and ragged with heeled boots, suggestive of a travel in the forest.

The erotic outline and meditative at the back of the complete pick up was emphasised with leather, match chokers, written by Ileana Makri , that were desirous by the restraints used in The Story of O, and a molding of stones detailing the low-cut necklines.

In some-more glamorous mode, Schwab, who has only shown his initial pick up for the American brand, Halston, at New York Fashion Week, showed black, asymmetric, "dirndl" dresses with clear halters and shoulder details.

Two red runner gowns in cream-parchment taffeta, that followed the "dirndl line" in silhouette, and were detailed with crystals one featuring a half-ball gown-skirt over taffeta shorts, or should that be "taffeta-hosen" - finished this fantastic collection.