“What Happens In The Grotto…Stay In The Grotto”. photographs: MAYA ROCHAT and SOPHIE BRASEY

picture from her show. 2009

“What Happens In The Grotto…Stay In The Grotto” is the third year collection (2009) of MARIEL MANUEL, a Swiss fashion designer currently studying at ROYAL ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS Antwerp.

The whole project (a kind of ethnical collection mixing fur, lace, tartan, wood) is simply perfect: Her sketches are stunning (you just can’t miss it!) and the photographs by Swiss photographers MAYA ROCHAT and SOPHIE BRASEY make you believe in a wild-glamour society living at night in the desert.

If you want to watch pictures of her fashion show in 2009, it’s here: http://www.antwerp-fashion.be/SHOW2009/EN/3.html

Definitively a talent to watch!

thank you MARIEL MANUEL, you rock!