LOOKBOOK: RONI ILAN AW16

For AW16 Israeli born Central Saint Martins graduate Roni Ilan continues her slow and steady approach to menswear design, with an eight outfit collection comprised of boldly minimal suits, shirting and knitwear. Inspired by her personal experiences of motherhood, the idea of connectivity was first explored in Ilan’s AW15 designs through a wall like fastening between outfits. Influenced by the teachings of Elizabeth Haich, this season realizes the idea on a more dramatic scale, evaluating wider and further reaching connections. This is depicted most clearly in a progressively boxy silhouette, where the peripheries of outfits begin reaching out to one another. Central to this effect is a screening and revealing technique where Ilan explores the idea of surface value, versus a deeper bond. This feeling is also echoed in the unifying flood of print that washes over looks. Here, pattern is layered onto fabrics through both light projections and screen print, to gradually unveil an inky depth. A meditative soundtrack of layered field recordings and heartbeats reflect the rhythm of these patterns, to complete the scene