Fashion house ALAÏA presented their Summer Fall 2022 Collection that pays homage to craft, and to clothing as sculpture. The collection is an open and ongoing conversation between the past of the Alaïa, and its future: Reinterpreting codes, reconsidering architecture, investigating obsessions and unanticipated histories. This season the brand brings new proportions, while the architecture of pieces introduced new volume through cut, and the structures permit impossibilities. The collection also celebrates the dialogue between the arts and inspirations. For his second collection designer Pieter Mulier was inspired by Pablo Picasso’s ceramic works.
“Tailoring is oversized, cut with curves to trace the line of the body. Its shapes evoke a narrative drawn from the past – Azzedine Alaïa’s meeting with Greta Garbo, the oversized coat he created for her. Big, bigger, biggest, with a collar to hide behind. Her enigmatic legacy, one that intrigued Alaïa, inspires. Alaïa in abstraction: the maison’s rich aesthetic heritage is echoed through materiality and silhouette. Vichy check, patent, python, laces as a scrim through which the body is revealed. Pure cotton poplin, rich velvet, a neckline or seam with a sinuous meander around the form. They key identity into every garment.” – from Alaïa
Design Direction and production: Bureau Betak
Casting: Ashley Brokaw
Make-up artist: Pat McGrath
Hair artist: Duffy
Soundtrack: Gustave Rudman
