ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />Young Dutch designer Steffie Christiaens presented an ethereal, Doomsday-inspired collection for Spring/Summer 2013 at her catwalk show in a cavernous parking garage in Paris on Tuesday (September 25).<br/> <br />Christiaens, an environmentally-conscious designer, opened her presentation with a projection of a conceptual film she directed, demonstrating her concern over the melting of the North Sea's ice caps. The dream-like sequence showed models swimming underwater, wearing garments made from fabric that dissolves and reforms in the water.<br/> <br />Christiaens likened the changing nature of the clothes in the video to the instability and uncertain future of the planet in a press communique handed out to journalists attending the catwalk presentation.
