As we enter the dead of winter in the countries of the North, winter looms on the horizon of the Southern Hemisphere.So for one 2010 fall/winter collection in New Zealand, we are going to blame it all on the rain!
Party cancellations, postponed wedding celebrations, puddles everywhere...
“Winter weather is like life,” says FourFontaine director Mark Hurley. “Sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s bad; there’s nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella.”
Little can we do except accept the inevitable with a color palette of moody blacks, along with blues and gray—all of which are punctuated with white, baby blue, orange, and a lively purple.
Check out the prints, too, and pay tribute to those gloomy, tumultuous skies with howling wolves and cawing crows, skulls, Gothic keys and axes, butterflies, fruit, and fluffy clouds that dot the blue skies—all pointing to the glorious arrival of spring and summer!
As W.J. Vogel stated, “To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring.”
