Peter Pilotto and Christopher De Vos are the designers behind the PETER PILOTTO label. Pilotto is half-Austrian, half-Italian and De Vos is half-Belgian, half-Peruvian. They met whilst studying at Antwerp’s prestigious Royal Academy of Fine Arts in the year 2000. PETER PILOTTO’s vision of womenswear embraces both new and classic perspectives on elegance. Otherworldly prints combine with soft sculp
tural shapes to form the handwriting of the design duo, something which evolves and is explored each season as opposed to being reactionary. Pilotto is focused toward textiles and print whereas De Vos concentrates more on silhouette and drape. However, the duo work beyond their individual perimeters to create something new, their process being very organic and beyond an integration of the two fields. PETER PILOTTO prefer to guard a little magic around their creations for the wearer’s own input. This is reinforced by the idea of the curiosity cabinet, which is something that holds stimulus for the duo. The curiosity cabinet is a metaphor for journey, their cultural mix and a collection of recurring things that enamour them, such as natural phenomena. The duo are particularly fascinated with a scientific view of nature, as reflected in the microscopic, encrusted, hyper-real prints of the collections. Their customer is unique in that she is beyond pure classification of age or style, just like the clothes themselves. She is instantly attracted to the clothes and will wear them with her own expression, whether she encounters their designs through a chance discovery or is a loyal follower. PETER PILOTTO is at current date sold in 50 countries worldwide and featured at over 220 directional retailers including; Selfridges and Dover Street Market in London; Le Bon Marché in Paris; Bergdorf Goodman, Saks Fifth Avenue in New York; Joyce and Lane Crawford in Hong Kong and China. Autumn Winter 2012 marked the tenth London catwalk show for the design duo, supported by Topshop. For their Spring Summer 2012 Collection they were awarded Fashion Forward sponsorship, supported by the British Fashion Council and Coutts. In December 2009 PETER PILOTTO was awarded the best emerging talent award at the British Fashion Awards.
