PHOTOGRAPHY Basso and Brooke BY MARCUS DAWES
Report by fiona campbell
It’s been a jungle out there this London Fashion Week. Elaborate animal prints with a revved-up Jungle Book soundtrack at Mulberry, feral looking models reminiscent of Where the Wild Things Are dominated the Unique show, and there were roars of approval for Nathen Jenden’s Lion faced dress and zebra stripes. As expected design duo Basso and Brooke put their own graphic spin on the animal-tastic trend putting out a collection of Ethnic looking digitalised prints contorted to look like the furs of fictional animals. “We wanted to create furs that don’t exist, so we invented them!” And the result? A fiercely textured collection of fantasy furs merged together to create an alien-like pelt, all without a dead animal in sight!
