Catching flights, not feelings, could be a fitting way to describe Laura and Deanna Fanning’s vision for Kiko Kostadinov’s SS25 collection. The dynamic twin-sister duo focused on, as they wrote in their show notes, “women charging through the world to places real and imagined.” This season the pair chose to home in on the transience of time, place and movement.
Congregating at the American Cathedral of Paris, mosaics and inflated white Michelin man-esque domes became the collection’s backdrop while an arrangement of atmospheric synths composed by Bill Kouligas danced through the salon.
Believing that the way we travel around the world moulds us into the people we are today, and the objects we collect along the way become emblems of those memories, bags ended up covered in embellishments; badges and pins found their way onto the breast of ’60s-inspired flight uniforms – it was every ‘blokette’ girl’s dream.
And don’t get us started on the shoes – boxing boots and ballet flats! Strung together with two buttons, we can practically picture the Instagram posts now (think football jerseys paired with coloured tights). Hair took flight into beehive territory and berets slanted themselves clockwise while scarves stayed perfectly afloat as if caught in motion.
Levi’s made another appearance this season, as the second collaboration with Kostadinov and manifested this time as denim boiler suits, screen-printed with a custom stamp pattern. And as always with Kiko Kostadinov, you can count on an out-of-body psychedelic experience when it comes to the colour palette. This season it was green, mustard, red, silver and black – and that was just from one outfit.
Photography courtesy of Kiko Kostadinov.
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