The “Cult of Temptation” Collection extends from the summer “Lightness of Being ” capsule presentation, enhancing the vital connection with nature inspired by the Finnish National Romanticism Movement. As summer naturally transitions into winter, its lightness and warmth are gradually replaced by more profound, darker aspects that tease our vivid imagination.
The designs are developed to reflect this natural progression, proposing a deeper reflection through a journey within. Playing with the codes of symbolism, the Fall/Winter collection offers visual delight and hints at sensuous pleasure through interpreting the poetry found in nature.
Inspired by the symbolist art period that led artists into a new kind of self-centeredness, mysticism and spirituality promoting poetic and intuitive questions, The “Cult of Temptation” themes mirror a more imaginary yet dominant vision of the connection between humanity and nature based on the theory of monistic oneness.
In honor of the Fleurs du Mal poetry by Charles Baudelaire, Jasmin exploits the delicate and seductive aura of a flower, bringing out a variety of emotions starting with temptation and leading through vulnerability, often into insecurity and melancholy evoked by the falling leaves.
For the Cult of Temptation collection, Santanen was encouraged to take the beauty of seduction philosophy from the aesthetic movement, originally known as the Cult of Beauty movement, one step further. By viewing fashion as a pathway to a heightened state of being above the limits of the physical world, allows us to transcend mental limits above the physical world. Inspired by the paintings by Dante Gabriel Rosetti, Edward Burne Jones, and James McNeill Whistler, the Cult of Temptation collection represents a world of engagement and bravery going against the conservative views of the Victorian era, in favor of returning to nature.
Nature’s overwhelming powers are captured in the design and color story of the prints; forceful thunder’s black and white, antiquated bronzes, dark blue and purple velvety nights influence the wintery color scheme and patterns as a reminder of a world in transit and life’s cycle of death, leading eventually again into rebirth.
Full-length pieces in heavy velvets, rustic wool crepes and bold wintery laces connect us with our earthly power, while goddess-like drapes and graceful silhouettes are reminiscent of the mystic and supernatural evoking the divine within.
