Ter et Bantine Summer collection
Ter et Bantine’s summer collection dressed a woman that evokes and mixes straight male and female forms. It is a concept that reflects very well the designer’s attitude towards life and career as expressed in the biographical note in her website.
She sees her brand as her third child and as a mother she has to protect and also to criticise it to be able to give it the strenght of being independent. Manuela Arcari found it very hard to balance between career and family and I think her collections are for women who, as herself, want to succeed in both. A ‘transparency of feelings and actions’ that became straight lines and shapes, strong and defined colours that offers a different type of luxury that is cultivated in the garments and the personality of her woman. She doesn’t have that designer problem of reducing a woman’s life to one or two moments: work, a fancy party (as also said for Stella in the NYTimes).
I simply loved it, and I felt really inspired by the designers mood: “I have recently reached a personal inner balance to defend my space and affections and, probably to contrast the disorder and confusion that surround us, I feel stronger and find I can define the principles of my life.” That’s the relaxed yet clear and penetrating Ter et Bantine woman, a woman I also aim to be.
julikafrombudapest
