Autumnlin

Autumnlin Atelier creates one-of-a-kind and limited edition haute couture and high-end eveningwear using hand-pleated silk, sculpted exotic leather and undulating zipper-tooth panels. Autumnlin combines historically inspired silhouettes with intense textile construction adding a sculptural aesthetic to each piece. The gowns are hand-pleated and draped making each individual much like a fingerprint. Dreams serve as the primary inspiration, creating a story that becomes the visual prose for all collections.

The Inspiration// Autumlin

In my dreams, garments move, gently shift, embrace and encompass the body, Bend with a change of the air; a movement of emotion.  They cling to the form with an uncanny force and wither as the darkness fades. They move gently and breath softly with an ethereal tension that clings to the eyes like the end of a dream.

Heartless Revival is a ready-to-wear label offering fashion and accessories with Victorian style combined with the aesthetic of Tokyo (Harajuku) street fashion.  The label was conceived during FIT's "Dark Glamour" Exhibition and "Subculture and Style" Symposium which took place on Friday the 13th and Valentines Day 2009. 

The name Heartless Revival comes from an on-going dream and each word stands for an aspect of the line. HEARTLESS represents inherent dark nature of the label: pale, beautiful, cold and quiet, with the shades of darkness and light. REVIVAL personifies the past; the historic silhouette and the desire to connect with Victorian. Revival is the forgotten craft, she is couture, she is nouveau, the memory of what was once was lost.

Designer Bio // Autumn Kietponglert is an award-winning Philadelphia-based fashion designer whose work has been shown at New York Fashion Week and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She has also been exhibited in fashion shows in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Dallas and Chicago and has had art exhibitions in Florence Italy and Philadelphia PA. She has Bachelors in Fibers from The University of the Arts and a Masters Degree from Drexel University in Fashion Design in addition; she has studied in Florence Italy and taken classes in New York and Paris. She also spent many years working in historic costume surrounded by beautiful inspirational garments and accessories from 1770s and beyond….