Beautiful Soul AW11

The founder and designer of Beautiful Soul, Nicola Woods, is a graduate of The London College of Fashion and recently won the Future 100 award for changing the face of everyday business and improving commerce’s impact on the wider world.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Having worked as a designer for South African charity, Tabeisa, Nicola maintains, “Fashion with a true meaning is the only way forward”. She aims to share her knowledge and experience with emerging creative talents to garner collective recognition.

Her latest season AW11 is all about colour and the hues are fresh and bright – a refreshing twist to AW11. A blank silk canvas is the starting point, pulling from memory and reminiscing, filling in shapes with colour: swallows, English roses, bluebells, butterflies, dragonflies, and ladybirds breathe a breath of fresh air into autumn/winter. British illustrator Faye West has been commissioned to collaborate on the unique prints.

The women’s ready-to-wear boasts a strong collection of outerwear including trenches, capes, blazers and cropped jackets in British wool trimmed with carved and engraved vegetable ivory buttons.

The outerwear sits perfectly beside a more commercial range of silk, illustrated print dresses that fluidly drape and flatter the female form. Wrap dresses, shift dresses, shirt-dresses, and playful mini dresses meet a brand new capsule selection of silk gowns, destined for the red carpet.

The men’s ready-to-wear will again see blazers, but this time in British wool.

Beautiful Soul will carry on with their Kimono Collection, upcycling vintage Japanese kimonos into a striking and wholly unique collection of trenches, capes, blazers and cropped jackets.