Mary Restieaux did a lot of different work, one the projects she did was working for Herve Leger doing the colour samples for his collections back in the late 1980's-1990's. It was really interesting to see his work relating to the colours samples, which she has kept over the years to relate back to and show people for reference and her own personal achievement. Mary formed a very close relationship with Herve himself when he still owned his label and was creating such an iconic name for himself in the industry.
I love Herve's dresses, the tight fit knitted bands which are then all hand sewn together, they show off the hourglass figure of a women in its own unique form. When looking through the photos of the collection, it also showed us how much the models have changed. In our modern generation we are far to interested in this perception of being stick thin and almost child like. When back then he was using models like Cindy Crawford and Helena Christensen they show his designs in such a more healthy fulfilling way, which has just got lost in today's society. I think the fashion world is sending out the wrong message to young girls, but as anything change is something which can either be a positive or a negative. Herve's work and of course Mary's was a quite an honour for me as a weaver to be able to see someone's work up and in person and find out her style and the jobs which she got from being a freelance worker.
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