PETER PILOTTO

Peter Pilotto and Christopher De Vos are the designers behind the Peter Pilotto label.
Pilotto was born in 1977 in Austria and De Vos was born in 1980 in Libya. The design duo met while studying at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp.
The highly acclaimed AW08 collection presented otherworldly prints combined with soft sculptural shapes inspired by ‘the mineralogist’ (an image from 1830 that illustrated a mineralogist with all his discoveries placed on his outfit), and was credited by Style.com following their show as one of the ‘Ten Most Promising New Talents’. AW0809 was the label’s second season and catwalk show with Peter and Christopher together, Peter had presented smaller collections before.
Their customer is timeless and ageless, and it is her spirit that attracts her to mix colour and prints that are Peter Pilotto. The pair are entranced by the richly decorated costumes of the 1920's Ballets Russes, the illustrations of Léon Bakst, medieval Page Boys, Byzantine Churches, warriors of ancient Rome and back to a much further future - science fiction...