You think you’ve seen street wear with DKNY or Alexander Wang. You think you’ve seen sports luxe and athletic attitude, but you haven’t seen anything, until you’ve seen the VFiles collection that showed at MADE Fashion Week Fall Winter 2015.Â
Like a younger, fresher, less luxurious, more edgy version of New York Fashion Week, MADE Fashion Week features up and coming designers that maybe couldn’t afford at tent at Lincoln Centre, or maybe just didn’t think it was their style. Either way, MADE Fashion Week is getting to be known in itself, rather than an offcut of New York Fashion Week.
The VFiles collection was comprised of four different parts, designed by four different designers. All connected, but at the same time, insanely different, the runway show was exciting and vibrant. Tattooed models and shirtless hunks rolled down the runway on scooters in converse shoes and street wear that you were marking to put in your shopping cart.
Designs were fresh and diverse, from the use of textures and asymmetrical shapes by Andrea Jiapei Li to the in-your-face colours and designs by Di$count Univer$e. Made up of both men’s and women’s styles, each quarter of the collection had its own distinct feel, which caters to many personalities when it comes to purchasing street wear.
Ximon Lee’s menswear collection was full of boxy shapes, layering, pinstripes and ombre pieces for those prone to comfort. Models donned socks and sandals with their dark coloured pieces.
Andrea Jiapei Li included every texture you want within street wear. The sports luxe trend obviously isn’t going anywhere, with tracksuit pants worn with asymmetrical PVC pieces in pastel colours. Neoprene dresses and jumpers were a big part of the collection.
Julia Seemann’s denim collection was very boho-chic, with skirts and culottes of varying lengths thrown in with standout metallic pieces and PVC patches.
Di$count Univer$e by Nadia Napreychikov and Cami James is popular among musicians, no doubt for standout pieces with plenty of zing. Sequin dresses, graphic designs and fluorescent colours are highly attention grabbing.
Which quarter of the collection would you wear?
Images via style.com
