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Celebrated from the press and pampered by the greatest fashion editors, the young English fashion designer Gareth Pugh can be numbered among the 
new talents of the international catwalks.
His very artistic and stagy collections, that can be compared to the creativity of some other fashion designers such as Alexander McQueen or John Galliano, are inspired by the extreme background of the British clubs.
The experimental design of his clothes, as far as the construction of shapes and volumes is concerned, is described by Pugh himself as expression of the “fight between light and dark”.
On Paris catwalk of the Palais de Tokyo, the background of Spring/Summer 2010 appears ghostly.
The dresses, wisely built with a much less sharp architecture, compared to the last season, wrap diaphanous bodies of “corpse brides”.
The tiny sheath dress and leggings constraint somehow the shapes due to the multiple inlays on different fabrics, varying from leather to chiffon and crêpe. Incredibly extreme hats get melted with the models’ faces, sometimes hiding them completely (see photo).
Crow’s beak, black feather and wings create ambiguous and androgynous figures, with a grim look, showing now breasts and now man’s chests.
The theme treated by “Requiem for a dream”, reinterpreted by Matthiew Williamson, accentuate the dark and post-apocalyptic atmosphere of an absent spring, where the only colour is the one of the moon light.
