Step into the world of Astrid Andersen, a Danish designer who made her mark immediately upon her graduation from the Royal College of Art: luxury sportswear. Over her brief career Astrid has been redefining the meaning of that phrase, namely by exaggerating its composite parts. Forget cashmere casual, and think more lace and velvet sweatsuits, fur basketball vests, chiffon spliced into billowing baseball shirts with a hint of ball gown.“The picture on the invitation is from the first sumo match I went to. It was amazing; a delicate process clashed against this super aggressive 5 seconds. It’s not really about the actual sport; it’s everything around it, aesthetically and historically. It’s sensitive and fragile, and there is a sense of really trying to keep this tradition alive – even the hair takes half a day to do.” – Astrid Andersen
There’s something about the inherent masculinity of Andersen’s references that ets her get away with the femininity. femininity in menswear i love personally due to its breaking of boundaries in mens fashion. This season, as well as pushing her materials, she played with proportion, cropping nylon high on the torso and suctioning shapes tight to the muscled bodies of her models, as well as elongating lines to floor-length. She added kimono style wraps in hare krishna shades of orange and cerise, and sumo inspired belted skirts.
