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"  Last year during a particularly stressful time, Dutch designer Elsien Gringhuis decided to get out of the city of Arnhem, Holland, where she lives, and go on a long bike ride through the countryside. &amp;quot;It was so beautiful, the simplicity of it,&amp;quot; Gringhuis, 31, says. &amp;quot;It was this endless space with nothing in it except for green fields and blue skies.&amp;quot; The palette, the freeing feeling, and the sweeping lines of the rolling hillside became the inspiration for Gringhuis&amp;#039; fall collection, which, because it was especially windy that day, she named &amp;quot;One of These Days,&amp;quot; after the instrumental Pink Floyd song that begins with sounds of whistling wind. And, she says, &amp;quot;because it was one of those days that I decided to go biking!&amp;quot; The designer translates the open fields into the liberating silhouettes of silk jumpsuits and slackened dresses in pale blues fading into foliate greens, the faint color in between standing in for the horizon. But perhaps even more compelling are the ways in which Gringhuis tempers nature with her industrial, minimalist aesthetic, imposing sharp angles and clean lines onto stiffly tailored jackets and modern dresses in distinctly man-made, bold indigos and saturated emeralds. For Gringhuis, who launched her eponymous line in 2009 after graduating from Arnhem&amp;#039;s ArtEZ Institute of the Arts with a degree in fashion design, the collection is a departure from last fall&amp;#039;s inspiration of\u2014get this\u2014oppressive structures in urban architecture. &amp;quot;I wanted something more loose and easy this time,&amp;quot; the designer says, explaining her creative about-face, &amp;quot;but some of it is still very constructed.&amp;quot; That Gringhuis reveres the sobriety of the cityscape as much as she does a virginal landscape is not surprising given the tenets on which she founded the line: to use sustainable, all-natural fabrics (silk, cotton, bamboo, and wool) in silhouettes that are architectural and futuristic. &amp;quot;Sometimes I coat the cotton with beeswax to make it more technically interesting,&amp;quot; she says. Gringhuis, whose fall 2011 collection won Amsterdam&amp;#039;s Green Fashion competition, buys her fabrics in bulk, reusing not only the same materials in multiple collections but also certain pieces and styles that she likes too much to see disappear with the seasons. In fact, this winter, the designer is launching a secondary line, Basic Ones, on that very principle: simple pieces\u2014shirts and trousers in bamboo, silk, and cotton ($70\u2013$360)\u2014that will be available year-round on Elsiengringhuis.com. (Jet-setters can find her main collection sells at Pr\u00EAt \u00E0 Porter in Paris and the Designercafe concept store in the Netherlands.) In line with her economical design approach, she&amp;#039;s naming each piece Basic One, Basic Two, and so on, adding in new items periodically and building on the collection. &amp;quot;For me, seasons are not so important,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s more about whether it&amp;#039;s a good garment.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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