KATZME ♥: "Metropolis" inspires Fashion

Katzme ♥ adores how the Fantasy worlds of fiction are influencing fashion.

Katzme will introduce you to a Great New Designer that has been influenced by this Film Ada Zanditon and to Karl Lagerfeld's German Vogue Shoot in February.

Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist film .Directed by Fritz Lang. Produced in Germany “Metropolis” set in a futuristic urban dystopia. Its use of the science fiction context to explore a political theme of the day of social crisis between workers and owners . It was the most expensive silent film ever made. Did you know it inspired C-3PO in Star Wars? and gave Superman's home its name. It's a black and white silent Sci-Fi film. It is considered a Sci-Fi classic and a must-see for any movie aficionados.

The,"machine-human" from Metropolis was played by German actress Brigitte Helm in both her robotic and human incarnations.

It was the inspirational force behind Ada Zanditon’s new couture capsule.

Katzme ♥ this Fantastic ethical Eco fashion Designer that we've seen over the last few seasons.

Ada Zanditon is without a doubt the stand out talent in terms of creativity and concepts and someone to keep a keen eye on for the future.

Ada made her catwalk debut to an international audience at London Fashion Week in 09 Fashion Scout’s “Ones to Watch” show (featured on Vogue.com)

Ada interned with Alexander McQueen before going on to study at the London College of Fashion' Ada also interned for Jonathan Saunders.

Once graduated, Ada worked on various freelance projects including: the Centre for Sustainable Fashion’s first Shared Talent Project in South Africa and creating product for Oxfam’s first boutique. She then went on to set up her own company in early 2008 after working for Gareth Pugh.

Since establishing the company, Ada Zanditon has created the visionary album and tour wardrobe for Patrick Wolf along with commissions for Bishi, Robots in Disguise and Stephanie O’Brien of the Puppini Sisters.Notably, Ada has been placed in The Observer’s top 50 of the Courvoisier future 500’s latest intake.

In late 2009 Ada was selected for the Estethica eco fashion mentoring program by the British Fashion Council.

As you know Katzme ♥ these imaginary worlds and how they inspire our Designers so Ada hasn’t disappointed us by show casing her capsule couture.

Photographer:Masashi Sugiyama

Each season this very talented designer has chosen a stunning environmental theme and then goes onto build an incredibly beautiful collection around it. She has now used the inspirational force of the "Metropolis" to produce these creative and innovated designs.

Photographer:Masashi Sugiyama

When talking to Ada about this she said

"In the film there is a kind of love story between Freder and Maria - (characters in Metropolis) –“

You can see this beautiful world portrayed by her good friends Marie and Joe.

Ada remarked that "The characters Maria and Freder come from socially opposed backgrounds and manage to overcome inequality and exploitation to unite Metropolis, they are part of a constructive narrative about an industrialised society. They are the heart, the humanity of the film. I think its about encapsulating passion and humanity in an ultra modern technology centric society! "

One of the things that Katzme really ♥ was when Ada said " I chose Marie and Joe to be the models for this collection because they are incredible performers and have an amazing dynamic energy and raw creativity together and individually. That is the best of what a human element can be in any equation for me. "

Many thanks to JOSEPH HEFFERNAN and MARIE KARLBERG

Photographer:Masashi Sugiyama

This fantastic couture capsule was shot outside & inside their own Metropolis. Ada chose “The Met Bar” at the Metropolitan Hotel in Green Park.

Creative and innovated visual displays can be seen in the shop window using Ada’s Dresses which are made using all recycled and end of line fabrics.Check out the beautiful window displays at Machine A.

Available from Machine A. at 60 Berwick Street Soho, London, W1F 8SU

The images in the windows were shot by Masashi Sugiyama

Ada reflectively said ":..... Ultimately I love the film because it's a story of boundries being broken, change and revolution in the way that the city and in the way that it's society functions.... "

Katzme asked: Can you tell me what was the inspirational force behind your couture capsule and how "Metropolis" effected you.

"I think that Metropolis is an exceptional film and the big effect it had on me when I watched it" shortly after her returning to London from Paris Fashion Week. "It was the context of humanity within modernity. What fuels life? What sustains the system we have created? I think that was what inspired me.... that this story still feels very relevant. The boundaries between human/machine,(technology/nature, industry/sustainability) love and logic, the contrast is increasingly thrown into sharp relief by the complexity of the world we live in and so the pieces reflect the cusp of where all these ideas meet in order to create pieces that express the place where those boundaries are transcended."

Katzme went on to ask Ada: The film Metropolis has some fantastic features and set designs that have a visual impact.what do you feel influenced your fantasy world from the movie ?.
Was it the German Expressionism or the architecture based on contemporary Modernism and Art Deco ?

"I enjoy all those elements to the film but the aesthetic I particularly love that encapsulates it for me is Raygun Gothic, an aesthetic that draws all those influences. It is interesting to see how pivotal these movements have been in our collective conscious of how people aesthetically project ideas of what the future will be and what is futuristic. It is actually a kind of retro futuristic aesthetic. "

She has applied this to her designs so go and see these geometric retro futuristic designs and enjoy!!! Machine A "here we come...."