Inspired by glamorous street style, this womenswear collection (Spring/Summer 2019) aims to embody the diversity of New York City’s Melting Pot and its societal performance. Here, sport and street influences share the same bed with sophisticated materials and luxurious hand embroidered details. Puffer jackets with heavily embellished basketball jerseys and sweatshirts, alongside fine digitally printed silk satins were used to illustrate the contrast between refinement and toughness.
Bringing together the street and the glittery sides of New York wasa main feature in my concept, as it is a city of “jungle toughness, but also sophistication, glamour, chic, wit”. (Burgess 1973