Louise Goldin’s Spring 2010 Ready to Wear Collection looked rather like the set of a science fiction movie. Though it was a knitwear collection, it included short, flaring skirts, leather insets, and pointy cone bustiers. The collection has been compared to the late Gianni Versace’s mid 1990s looks with a dash of Jean Paul Gaultier’s collection for Madonna’s 1990 world tour. The collection featured pastel green, yellow, violet, blue, and lavender, done in baby doll shapes complete with leather bloomers. Her fabrics are self-made, right down to the lacy edging on dresses and the tulle included as inserts in some of the pieces.

Goldin is also the designer of a new capsule collection for Scottish cashmere purveyor Ballantyne, with a 40 piece collection including skirts and tops. Goldin won the Swarovski Emerging Talent Award in 2008 and has achieved fame for her knitwear, making her a perfect choice to join forces with Ballantyne.

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In only her second collection to be shown at London’s Fashion Week, young visionary Louise Goldin showed just how far one could go with the color black, knitwear, and leather. Known for knits that are a far cry from the sweaters your grandma used to knit you for Christmas, Goldin presented a futuristic collection all in black last week.

Goldin proved once again the level of technical accomplishment that made her earlier collections famous. Knits, leathers, and clear space were used in this meticulously crafted, futuristic collection inspired by abstract expressionist painter Vasily Kandinsky.

Describing her style as “innovative, futuristic, and luxurious,” Goldin manages to create knits in intricate patterns that at once look like something from the future and something that could come from a vintage Missoni collection. This wasn’t terribly easy to tell because of Goldin’s decision to make this collection all in black, but form-fitting, avant garde pieces fusing leather and knits further cemented Goldin’s reputation as a young fashion visionary to watch.