“Driving through the back streets, lights streaking past like shooting stars, watching famous monuments flay past in the rush. Gotta go faster, gotta get through. Pumping the accelerator on my Mercedes roadster, speeding through red lights, horns blaring in annoyance, left turn, left turn on the home stretch. I push my roadster past the black and white.
When I first received the name of my Resene colour my imagination went to cars and the 1950s where teenage culture was at malt shops, street races and leather jackets, so I started designing my garment for a female street racer going through the fashion capitals of the world, leaving a driver’s mark everywhere she went.
As I went down the driving aspect of the name, I found Bertha Benz the first long distance driver of the first automobile. I was truly inspired by this woman who against all cultural norms took her husband’s invention and went from Mannheim to Pforzheim to visit her mother. Bertha Benz was a smart, brave, uncompromising and determined woman who allowed nothing and nobody to dissuade her from her visions. Wanting my garment to reflect this I designed a playsuit with exposed metal zips on the bodice, at the hem and in the darts.”
Resene Whitecliffe Colour of Fashion clothing - 2019
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