See The Fall/Winter 2024 Assortment From CPHFW

Burgeoning craft-oriented label, Paolina Russo, staged their sophomore assortment presentation at Copenhagen Fashion Week on a watercolour runway surrounded by holographic megalithic constructions. For Fall/Winter 2024, the textile-focused London-based label took solace invoking the prehistoric ruins of Stonehenge. Quite than conjuring this sentiment within the conventional type, the rabble-rousing model embellished the runway with its monogram rendered within the type of pearlescent runes and candy-coated ravers.

Right here, on an unsuspecting stormy night within the Danish capital, Paolina Russo delivered a spot for winter solstice festivities. A midsummer affair stuffed with solar statues and star gazing that took the type of inflatable metallic balloons conjured in celestial shapes by efficiency artist Esben Weile Kjær. Scattered over the ritualistic panorama the place the legions of fashions styled as proverbial New Age travellers wearing bohemian heirlooms.

Codes of the label had been dialled up with zesty Y2K edge that felt becoming for the off-duty wardrobes of the neo-druids who collect round these menhirs. Maybe a traveller of each time and house underneath the model’s fairy ring, with the wearer showing like they’ve simply stepped out of a dELiA*s catalogue.

The design methodology of the model sees folkloric prints and hand-crafted knitwear fuse with avant-garde athleisure. Each had been outstanding on this assortment, depicted in structured tunic attire layered over embroidered shirts and kaleidoscopic separates emblazoned with cybercore graphics. Elsewhere, mythological tube tops mingled with jersey observe pants and stonewash darkish denim performed underneath pleated mini skirts.

A synthwave color palette paired effectively with an explosion of pure hues—moss inexperienced ribbed shirts, sky blue muslin smocks, rainbow wraps, dirt-stained jackets. Whereas rooted in whimsical lore, the power of the mannequin’s left a way of nomadic prowess. The place has the Paolina Russo lady gone? And the place will she be going?

This wandering spirit was embedded from the outset of the gathering’s inception, because the titular Canadian-born designer informed the press the that means behind the gathering’s identify; “Cul-de-sac”.

“We wished to make our personal Neolithic-like cul-de-sac; our personal Paolina Russo suburb,” the designer added, explaining this vary explored themes of “suburban boredom and coming-of-age rituals.” These are the garments you would like your teenage self had. Those good for soiling at psytrance bush doofs you’d mislead your dad and mom about attending. The items for locating your self in. The clothes to get misplaced in. Wherever Paolina Russo pops up subsequent, you possibly can relaxation assured its acolytes will observe.