First Look: Muubaa Autumn 2011

Muubaa is quickly becoming the ‘go to’ brand for innovative, butter-soft leather pieces and the Autumn 2011 collection could be the most desirable yet!

Muubaa are known for taking classic, masculine jacket styles and making them feminine and wearable with interesting design details that evoke catwalk trends.

Maple Quilted Biker, £299

The Autumn 2011 collection is made up of sleek biker jackets with quilted panels, elegantly slouchy jackets with cascading collars, long biker macs with waist-tie belts and Victorian-style jackets with delicate buttons.

Christiana Nicolaou, Design Director at Muubaa says of the Autumn ’11 collection:

“I’m really glad that we’ve moved the range even further edgy and with added design details such as removable sleeves (ie. The Charme Aviatress jacket) as I think it adds another dimension to the range.  London is know as one of the most innovative capital cities in the world and I really want our range to add to the diversity and sophisticated street style that’s inherently London.  The variety inspires me and it’s what is unique about our city.”

Yarrow Long Mac Biker, £389

Of course, now the leather look isn’t exclusive to jackets and Muubaa’s Autumn collection features modern investment pieces such as a long leather pencil skirt, skinny leather trousers, a full leather circle skirt and a minimal Hannah Marshall-style leather t-shirt dress.

The colour palette for Autumn 2011 is made up of earthy, distressed shades including black, bitter chocolate, pyrite grey, rust and coal.

The two best-sellers, I predict, would be the sheepskin gilet (a typical fashion editor’s choice) and the wonderful 3-in-1 Aviatress jacket with detachable sleeves and collar.

Bronson Sheepskin Gilet, £349 / Daler Leather Shirt, £299 / Lilas Stretch Trousers £389

Leather has been all over the international catwalks and Autumn/Winter is all about mixing textures – tough leather with chunky knits, shearling with fine wool and soft leather with cashmere tailoring…the list is endless.

In fact, Muubaa’s long belted leather macs are perfect for channelling Haider Ackermann’s stunning Autumn/Winter 2011-12 looks at Paris Fashion Week (at a fraction of the price).