Ever since I started scanning fashion magazines I have this little fantasy, or neurosis, which in short comes down to: my house burnt down and I get to start over from scratch and some fashion fairy grants me to pick a brand new, although absolutely bare minimum, all-I-need designer wardrobe for the coming season. (Diane Vreeland said it: “Elegance is refusal.”) I guess this little game forces me to think about what is essential for that particular fashion season, or at least for me. So when the KLAVERS VAN ENGELEN spring summer 2010 lookbook landed in my mail, I couldn’t help but indulge.
It wasn’t hard to pick my five KLAVERS VAN ENGELEN looks that I would then have to spend the whole summer in, although I admit I would probably need something of a sweater or coat, living in Northern Europe and all, and at some point an old T-shirt or so. I know I’m being silly but it’s hard to keep up the ‘objective journalist act’ when two of your favourite designers drop one collection after another simply oozing with ‘the new you’.
