Into The Darkness featuring Lesley Mobo
Lesley Mobo won the coveted Diesel Award at ITS 3 (International Talent Support) with a collection inspired by the fight for survival in extreme conditions. Titled 'Obesity in the North Pole' Mobo used different textures and layering together with exaggerated shapes to explore the conventional and unconventional form and figure of the human body. The end result was a collection that abandoned the concept of clothing that contained the body and considered its potential for extending it.
Now with his 'own label' collection for Diesel he has reworked these same ideas and delivered a wearable collection as rich in texture as it is in metaphors. more...