Melitta Baumeister Spring 2017 Ready-to-Wear Paris Fashion Week After three years of constructing innovative garment shapes from industrial materials, Melitta Baumeister has finally made a collection that no longer feels so intimidating. This season marks a turning point for the New York–based designer, whose steadfast approach to stiff volumes has quite likely restricted her from achieving ...

New York–based mostly Melitta Baumeister thought of scrawling legible writing—catchphrases, even—throughout her shiny vinyl bonded clothes earlier than selecting black spray-paint tagging and white chalk paint. “I just like the unlawful side—that one thing lovely may be defaced and seem destroyed,” she mentioned from a rental house within the east stretch of Paris. Floor patterning, ...