Fashion feature: Libertine Fall 2013

image:S.Whittle for Style Wylde If you've ever attended a Libertine Runway show, than you know to expect a high energy production driven by designer Johnson Hartig's own free spirited point of view where  beauty, art and love of life emanate from every piece, and the fashion show is elevated  into a true fashion celebration.

And if you were at the Fall 2013 collection, which showed in New York earlier today, than those expectations would be met, and greatly surpassed. 

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image:S.Whittle for Style Wylde

Filled with vibrant, ornately decorated pieces in an array of prints from plaid, to skulls to eyes of god, the collection felt like a joyful run through India, the country by which the collection was inspired.

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In a recent interview for Bergdorf Goodman's Designer Dispatch blog, Designer Hartig Johnson described his Fall 2013 inspiration as:

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"I’m incredibly moved and inspired by the Indian’s dedication to overt decoration on everything— including 18-wheeler trucks and utilitarian tractors.It makes driving across the country of India exhilarating and fun and entertaining and gorgeous……it becomes its very own adventure discovering endless inspiration...India really is the most magically elegant place…one can’t help but see the world differently after having been there…"

image:S.Whittle for Style Wylde

 image:S.Whittle for Style Wylde

image:S.Whittle for Style Wylde

image:S.Whittle for Style Wylde

For More information on Libertine visit the label's official web home and check back with Style Wylde later in the week for a full gallery of images from the show.