'For the Autumn Winter collection Virtue, designer Cybele Wiren finds her inspiration in the juxtaposition of the regiment and formality of the Victorian era with the pure sculptural qualities of flowers and insect.
Wiren has created a series of dresses, coats and jackets as her take on the key elements of prim and proper Victorian dressing: oversized ruffles and frills appear to seamlessly fan from the neck, hem and bust to create a feminine, dramatic and unmistakably Cybele look.
That the Victorians were also travelers and sailors off discovering the brave new world is not lost on Wiren. The flora and fauna discoveries of voyages, alongside the Victorian tradition of collecting exotic insects has lead her to the symbols of the lily and the moth'