sacai 2017 Pre Spring Collection
Exploring the freedom to live life with more love, unconstrained by rules and conventions. Challenging the status quo with a joyful celebration of influences from around the world, spliced together in unexpected, irreverent combinations. Juxtaposing delicacy with tougher origins to create something new.
Re-imagining Hawaiian iconography with a pineapple motif lace re-constructed in military uniform silhouettes, applying a playful lightness of spirit to a fabric born of utility and aggression – celebrating the original archetype in a new context that inverts its original meaning into something fresh and unique to sacai’s vocabulary.
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Taking the utilitarian, elemental shapes of 90s sportswear and using them to play with familiar silhouettes to create new proportions – splicing and inserting panels from a sports jacket into a trench, parka or MA1 jacket to create the house’s signature silhouette. Weaving together a tapestry of influences that unify the world – splicing Afghan belt detailing with British Paisley and a Hawaiian hibiscus to make a print that celebrates geographies while at the same time transcending them. Re-interpreting a crochet patchwork quilt as a print on lace and chiffon, in a colour palette inspired by 60s pop art colours. Pleated lace made 3D and spliced with Seditionaries inspired abstract stripes. Re-appropriating the stripes of a Mexican poncho into new contexts.
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Making a play on the archetype of a summer tweed suit by melding a classic boucle jacket with a sports parka; by making a tweed skirt de-construct and seem to ‘fall apart’, exposing a seductive suggestion of lace. Using velvet in its rawest, un-cut state to re-invent hickory stripe suiting.
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