RITUAL PROJECTS

"Unlocking the ability to offer the full Area proposition—bitchy, hot, catty space diva—has opened up a new galaxy of creative potential for Panszczyk and Fogg. The more conceptual pieces take the idea of duality, two ideas swirling together, and represent it literally in a spiral of fabric on bosoms and blazers. "

Area Spring 2021 Ready-to-Wear Collection Area Spring 2021 Ready-to-Wear collection, runway looks, beauty, models, and reviews.

Gauchere AW21 in WWD!

Gauchere RTW Fall 2021 Marie-Christine Statz channeled a sense of comfort within her distinctive architectural universe.

"What was your style like as a teenager?

Cosima Gadient: I didn’t have one. My jeans were ridiculously low-rise. The zipper was, like, 2 centimeters high—why does a zipper like that even exist? Also, I parted my hair just above my ear, like a combover.

Christa Bösch: I was more of a skater girl. I thought I looked incredibly good, but when I see the photos now, I’m shocked. Luckily, we’ve added a few new pieces to our wardrobes since then."

Ottolinger in W Magazine

Ottolinger’s Designers Discuss Their Fall 2021 Show and Swiss Style In their Style Notes interview, Christa Bösch and Cosima Gadient describe their inspirations—from Sigourney Weaver in Alien to truck drivers.

Cardi B in Ottolinger

Cardi B Rocks One of Fashion’s Most Coveted Indie Labels Slinky and strappy is the brand’s M.O.

"In recent seasons, Fogg and Panszczyk have dazzled New York with collections that marry showgirl crystals and outlandish silhouettes with technically ambitious tailoring; Beyoncé and Michelle Obama have become clients. Their 14-look couture debut showcases that range, and their lookbook, which stars Precious Lee and Yasmin Wijnaldum, is a sort of statement of intent. This is most certainly not old-world couture, with its strictly sample size casting. “Difference for us is a positive thing,” Fogg says."

Area in Vogue

Area Spring 2021 Couture Collection Area Spring 2021 Couture collection, runway looks, beauty, models, and reviews.

Y/PROJECT in Vogue

"Martens spoke at about a million miles an hour as he observed: “What I’m proud about is that at a time where everything has started looking the same, and people consume visuals on Instagram so designers create easy commercial shapes for them to digest, we go against that. And specifically because of the pandemic, we decided to go extra against it.” Standing in that balloon pit 12 months ago, Martens’s designs looked, as per that Y/Project visual dialect, attractively strange in their chaotic-ness. Now that disorder and unpredictability is so much more familiar to all of us, they appeared less strange but still extremely attractive: well worth pausing to scroll and pinching your screen to zoom in on and wonder at."

Y/Project Fall 2021 Menswear Collection Y/Project Fall 2021 Menswear collection, runway looks, beauty, models, and reviews.

GmbH IN Vogue

"Isik’s analogue satisfaction came, he said, in cutting and shaping couture-referencing shapes that saw their criss-cross, shoulder-wrapping tailoring silhouette updated and then redeployed as an off-the-shoulder neckline. This was applied with magisterial subversiveness on a black dress/coat in jersey, quilted satin, and a queenly faux-fur in tabby cat tones. Maybe it was that theme, but the silhouette and facade of piratic pointed boots under fitted pants and stretched patterned tops or checked shirting variously recalled Westworld and Black Mirror’s “USS Callister.” Pleather boy looks were sometimes Matrix moody, while a treated-canvas python-print full look (down to the matching boots that were part of the brand’s debut all-vegan footwear range) seemed its own fresh reference."

GmbH Fall 2021 Menswear Collection GmbH Fall 2021 Menswear collection, runway looks, beauty, models, and reviews.

Boramy Viguier AW21 in Vogue

“What I am doing now...it’s more than local—it’s using what’s in the four walls of my studio. We are all going to have to deal with where we are in a real way very soon. That’s resurrection.”

Boramy Viguier Fall 2021 Menswear Collection Boramy Viguier Fall 2021 Menswear collection, runway looks, beauty, models, and reviews.

KIDILL AW21 on WWD

"A self-taught designer, Hiroaki Sueyasu launched Kidill in 2014 to express his admiration for punk music and the grunge cultures he encountered in the 1990s. The brand will be making its Paris Fashion Week official schedule debut this evening with its fall 2021 collection."

Ones to Watch: Paris Men’s Fashion Week Fall 2021 A self-taught designer, Kidill’s Hiroaki Sueyasu will be making its PFW official schedule debut Tuesday with its fall 2021 collection.

"SANKUANZ Autumn/Winter 2021 is the result of the post-pandemic era. When public order is compromised, when
common sense is challenged, when chaos and disorder become the new norm, how would human beings cope with this
reality? This is the subject this season is trying to address.

The show was held under a 1/3 scale replica of the Eiffel tower in Tiandu City, Hangzhou. The absurd building covered
in hasty darkness stands as the symbol of pre-pandemic civilisation, as well as a joke with dark humor.

The collection continues the cold and sharp style from previous seasons. The metal spikes, buckled leather straps as well
as the cilices meticulously hidden around the waist, may all seem to be terribly aggressive. But in fact, the aggressions
are directed at the wearer himself, symbolising self-punishment. If this world-wide pandemic is nature's punishment for
the human race, then self-punishment is to offset sorrow with sorrow. Attack and defence form together a dynamic
balance."

SANKUANZ Autumn/Winter 2021 Collection SANKUANZ Autumn/Winter 2021 CollectionParis Fashion Week© OnlineStyling: Shangguan ZheArtistic Collaboration: Zhou YilunShow Production: Mo Problem TodayHair...

"But if 2020 was a year of stasis, 2021 is setting up to be a year of change. Beckett Fogg and Piotrek Panszcyzk, the designers behind New York’s influential indie label Area, who’ve done more for crystals than anybody since Bob Mackie, are leading the way. To start, they’re moving to a see-now, buy-now cadence for their ready-to-wear collections and amping up their direct-to-consumer e-commerce offering. Even bigger news: they’re launching couture and showing alongside the official schedule that’s managed by the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode."

The NYC Indie Label Area Is Launching Couture Area’s Beckett Fogg and Piotrek Panszcyzk are moving to a see-now, buy-now cadence, amping up their direct-to-consumer e-commerce, and launching couture.

"Echoing LA HORDE 's commitment to exploring contemporary issues in classical contexts, Quillacq and Katomba have called upon a multitude of stylistic references when documenting the dancers at work. First and foremost, by incorporating runway silhouettes from Paris-based label Y/Project designed by Antwerp graduate Glenn Martens, Quillacq, Katomba and Gavin draw a unique parallel of deconstruction between the garments and the bodies within them, aligning the symbiotic modus operandi of Y/PROJECTt and (La)Horde to dismantle archetypes in fashion and dance respectively."

FRESQUE featuring (La)Horde, Marseille Inspired by Italian frescos and riviera sunsets, Francois Quillacq and Axell Katomba paint a moving portrait of the avant-garde dancers of the National Ballet of Marseille.