A Style to Love: Liberty Prints

My name is Susie Lau aka Susie Bubble and I'm a Liberty-a-holic. Or as a more serious and formal introduction, I'm Susie Lau or Bubble (whichever you prefer), from London in United Kingdom, writer of the blog Style Bubble.

On my blog I output my thoughts, observations and experiences in fashion and style and have been doing so for a grand total of 5 years (making me prehistoric in fashion blogging terms).

Back to being a Liberty-a-holic though, I'm specifically referring to Liberty print, a floral print that I consider not something that necessarily needs to be bang on trend' to be relevant. Florals may be going all enlarged, maximal and photographic for the new S/S 11 season but I'll still be clutching onto my Liberty printed duds and maintain that this floral can co-exist with their bigger and shinier counterparts.

It's precisely the slightly old-fashioned quality of these floral patterns that make them such a sturdy staple. The fact that a lot of Liberty floral prints get described as being ditzy' pertains to its girly and endearingly naive nature.

This also means that these qualities can be manipulated into a different context as seen at Maison Martin Margiela's latest Artisanal collection, which was inspired by flowers in general and sought to flip our perceptions. Two of the looks were made up of Liberty print fabrics made into appliqu?� flowers or woven into a degrade weave. It took a mind-boggling 117 hours to make these two silhouettes.