Awareness&Consciousness: Crystalised Edition S/S’14 Collection

Awareness&Consciousness latest collection entitled ‘Crystalised Edition’ by Christiane Gruber is exactly what you want for those warm months that we are all so desperately craving right now. With this collection giving off that ethereal vibe, these are the perfect edition to your wardrobe. Coming in unique shades of greens, blues, purples, and beigey-yellows, these fabulous, flowy frocks are what you want.

Gruber uses a sustainable hand-bleaching and dyeing technique to create a gorgeous watercolour effect on her clothes, and that just makes you love them more. Each piece is completely unique because they never dye the exact same way twice. Plus the environmentally friendly quality these garments have make them the ideal attire you could imagine a woodland pixie under her toadstool wearing.

These designs are so incredible because I have never seen anything quite like it before. Yes, shift dresses, jumpsuits and mid-cut skirts are what’s ‘in’ right now and yet these pieces seem as though they are in a world of their own. Quite literally, with their mystical, sensuous feel it’s almost exactly like you opened a Hans Christian Andersen fairytale and got sucked right in.

Using the idea of ‘Family Portraits’ for the collection, there are matching pieces for mother and child, while Gruber was also looking into the unisex aspect of the brand for this collection, it makes those Mid-August picnic snaps with your family all that more alluring. With further inspiration for these designs stemming from stones and crystalline structures, these pieces are and one of a kind as Mother Nature herself.

What makes this collection so special is that they directly represent the glorious things planet earth has to offer, it is the largest art installation ever, and Gruber has bought that thought to the forefront of your mind with these extra special pieces. These are magnificent, magical feminine clothes for everyday. They are soft designs with blurred edges, this is what great design is.

Katherine Bull

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