LFW’s Freshest Beasts Pt 2
Text by Al Jackson
Oct 7, 2009
Next to get our juices flowing was young Georgy Baratashvili. His SS10 collection at OnOff Exhibition was big on dark romanticism, featuring metallic tops and draped t-shirts – his trademark, apparently.
“Draped clothes are very free, yet very in touch with your body in a flattering way,” explained the kinetic Russian. “They also have this sensitivity that you don’t see much in menswear. When I started doing draped clothes for men, nobody else did it. Now everyone’s trying to pull it off,” claimed Georgy, with infectious confidence.
It’s the easy confidence of a creative tour-de-force, having two other collections and a collaboration with Puma behind him, Georgy indulged in all artistic forms back in Moscow: dancing (at the Fantasia school), painting, appearing on the silver-screen in Roman Khrushch’s Noughts and Crosses.
Our Georgy completed a fashion design and technology degree before moving to London and to Central St.Martins where he’s developed more “wearable” styles. His latest offering, then, is “all about movement; movements of fabric, movements of body, and how they affect each other.” said Georgy. “As a former dancer I love to be able to move, and so I hate clothes that restrict. I wanted my clothes live with the body, not just cover it up.”