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‘Feminine designs with a dizzying interplay of patterns'
Cathy Pill made a flying start in 2006, immediately grabbing attention with her very first collection. The graphically patterned dresses by this Brussels-based designer were featured on the high-profile Vogue website, Style.com.
The highly influential fashion journalist, Suzy Menkes of The International Herald Tribune, also dedicated some column inches to Pill's layered, feminine designs that display a dizzying interplay of patterns, though these are not at all haphazard but gracefully follow the human form.
It wasn't just the press who were enchanted by the highly wearable shift-like dresses in silk; purchasing managers were also charmed. After only two collections her work can be found in retail outlets everywhere from Brussels to Tokyo.
Cathy Pill (b. 1981) followed internships with Vivienne Westwood and A.F. Vandevorst and graduated from the La Cambre Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels in Brussels in 2004.
Her trophy cabinet is filled to overflowing: the many accolades include The Collection of the Year award from the ITS#TWO fashion competition in Italy in 2003, and two years later she hauled in the sponsorship prize of the Fondation Pierre Bergé and Yves Saint Laurent.