Attempt too many things and you’re a loony with a needle. Develop one idea and you’re stagnant and uninventive. A designer’s paradox.
For fall, the designers behind Sinha-Stanic, Fiona Sinha and Alexsandar Stanic, worked on the latter, with rather commendable results. Using a palette of black, grey, metallics, and sateen mustard and olive, the two continued to explore the hard-edged signature that is as seductive as it is their own. Unlike their London contemporaries, who have taken their own stab at reinventing the 80s silhouette, their vision presents an austerity, a linear rigour that has never been championed as clearly as when Helmut did it.
The dominant message was crop and shock. There were skin-tight dresses with zippers, an abundance - no really, their minimalist approach would have been apt here - of boleros, cropped pants, and belly-grazing jackets, and curving shimmer introduced through fabric or beading.
If less blatantly forward, the work shows a level of taste that is yet to be seen from some of their peers.
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