For Autumn/Winter 2019, Aubade invites avant-garde fashion artists Viktor&Rolf to create a special, one-off capsule lingerie collection merging the world of haute couture and premium French lingerie. Designers Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren developed the exclusive 9-piece collection featuring the label’s iconic bow, a quintessential symbol of haute couture. Laser cut bows and delicate garlands of dots on adorn the capsule’s signature lace, while flat satin bows add an unexpected touch to both the front and the back of the pieces.
Speaking to selected press at the Parisian launch of the Viktor&Rolf x Aubade collaboration, Horsting and Snoeren discussed the biggest challenges they faced designing lingerie. “In couture, you think in terms of metres. For this, we were forced to think in millimetres,” said Horsting. “We did not know the lingerie market at all, so we dived into it kind of innocently and quickly realised that designing lingerie is very different from designing couture.”
“Couture is like a laboratory for ideas and experimentation. There are a lot more restrictions when designing lingerie but we actually really liked it, perhaps because we are so used to expressing ourselves freely with couture,” he adds. “The work procedure really requires a different type of concentration – you have to think about literally every stitch, every millimetre, every minute detail. It’s very zen in a way, you really have to focus.”
Available in two colour ways, black ‘Soir’ and pink ‘Bonbon’, the Bow collection features a half-cup underwire bra, comfort half cup bra, plunging triangle underwire bra, comfort moulded half cup bra and triangle bra, all styled with double shoulder straps in the back, as well as a tanga slip, a Brazilian brief, a statement all-over lace St. Tropez brief and a peek-a-bow lace top. The signature bow motifs also star in the line of Viktor&Rolf x Aubademen boxers, available in bonbon and black, while more dandified black and white interpretations feature playful top hats, canes, moustaches and bow ties. The Viktor&Rolf x Aubade Bow collection is available from June 2019.
