SS09 - photos by Sophie Dreijer

SS09 - photos by Sophie Dreijer

For the Spring Summer collection 2009 Christian Westphal is inspired from the art and movements of Pantomime. The lively, exaggerated movements thrill audiences, and actors press further into the new expression exploring a release of energy and comedic form unfettered by the traditional theatre.

The personality of the Pantomime characters undergoes a metamorphosis over time, and the mood and style, poetic in movement, creates an empathic touching on deep, human emotions, which he faithfully have recreated to an astonishing degree of detail in the Spring Summer 2009 collection.