Quilting: A Stitch in Time
“I like the way quilted silk catches the light,” muses designer Corrado De Biase. “Also ‘cozy’ clothes make you feel comfortable and protected.” Roll together those tactile fascinations—along with Zandra Rhodes’s punkish sensibility and a blanket hand-embroidered by De Biase’s grandmother—and it explains why the Italian native has embellished his acid-bright spring collection with an alluring update on the outdoorsy sewing method.
Quilting notched up style points last summer, when after Alexa Chung and Poppy Delevingne dusted off their Barbour jackets’ stuffy connotations by pairing them with hot pants and colorful jeans, stylish girls across the U.K. clamored to copy them. Back at home, Proenza Schouler’s pre-fall collection, which referenced Himalayan sleeping bags, featured jackets and miniskirts with diamond-shaped stitching, an insulating technique as old as the hills that inspired them.
Quilting notched up style points last summer, when after Alexa Chung and Poppy Delevingne dusted off their Barbour jackets’ stuffy connotations by pairing them with hot pants and colorful jeans, stylish girls across the U.K. clamored to copy them. Back at home, Proenza Schouler’s pre-fall collection, which referenced Himalayan sleeping bags, featured jackets and miniskirts with diamond-shaped stitching, an insulating technique as old as the hills that inspired them.
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