Greg Lauren I

Greg Lauren's clothes are akin to a ragbag of distressed clothes mashed together in a piratical elegance of comfort with the patina of loved clothing. These examples are from his SS15 collection.

Ignacia Zordan

Ignacia Zordan is a Chilean Italian designer based in Paris who creates limited edition collections here are some of her SS2015 collection.

“Fashion, to me is a form of expression no different from other forms of art. A social tool; it’s about matching your inside to your outside, it’s attitude and confidence to approach life. Just like building a house for your spirit.” Ignacia Zordan

Victoria Todorov I

Victoria Todorov's SS 2015 Limited edition 'The Blind Collector' SS 2015. Todorov is a Melbourne based company and this is the second collection from Victoria whose designs and style have had a cult following in the city for years. This collection has a hard geometry combined with a translucence and is very beautiful.

Angel Chen I

Angel Chen's The Rite of Spring is a celebration of life, it has that wild exuberance of childhood, where there are no rules and either crayons have been scribbled all over the walls or while home baking the sprinkles, icing sugar etc have all been liberally applied to a cake in an act of unguarded glee.
Angel Chen has mixed translucent with opaque, heavy fabrics with voiles, block colours with patterns scribbles and polka dots. This first Ready to Wear collection SS2015 “The Rite of Spring” was launched at Shanghai Fashion week and was sponsored by well-known electronics brand Sony.

Thom Brown by Erik Madigan Heck

Absolutely stunning colour saturation and classic compositions with 1950's beauty and elegance by photographer Erik Madigan Heck, for Thom Brown SS2015's 'NO PHOTOS PLEASE' styled by Rebecca Ramsey. This collection has lots of 1970 flare and power in its colour and form, whilst also including folk elements like the wool embroidery and tatting in the embellishment and accessories.

When I was in graduate school (Parsons School for Design MFA) I used to try and show my fashion work in group-critiques, and discuss it in the larger context of photography as a medium. The professors for the most part wanted nothing to do with fashion photography, and I find today this is still true in the academic world, and the gallery world- fashion photography is still kind of the ugly cousin of Art photography. On the one hand I understand that on a base level fashion photography is simply serving a function: to advertise the clothing that it portrays. But, on the other hand, I think fashion photography is kind of a nothing term, where it can encompass anything and everything. It can be analyzed in terms of how it portrays gender, how it comments on socio-economic illustration (oftentimes in the most crass way), and it’s also unburdened from being critiqued by academia- so in many ways it’s free to exist as a true barometer for our time. It also has the ability to merge fantasy and illustration into a medium that I feel has become very expected. I rarely see Art photography in a gallery setting that excites or inspires anymore. But, I would be lying if I said I set out to use fashion photography as a way to discuss all of that, for me I’ve always seen my work as an extension of my interest in beauty as an ideal. Beauty is really the only thing that interests me. I think it’s the only true thing we have to discuss in art. Erik Madigan Heck

Faustine Steinmetz II

Faustine Steinmetz has developed or deconstructed her denim further than before. Initially it was shredded to a kind of felt or tufted rug but two years on SS2015 and it is down to a wonderful spiders web of indigo thread.

“ All the yarns are made from recycled denim, we unravelled the old denim and used traditional pleating and hand stitching techniques.” Faustine Steinmetz 

Gareth Pugh I

Gareth Pugh's SS2015 ready to wear collection is steeped in folk tradition and looks like many of the European folk costumes documented by French Photographer, Charles Freger in his Wilderman project.

" The handwork, the ceremonial aspects, the playful and sometimes outlandish practices, and the unnerving notion of an outsider society, all deeply resonate with me " Gareth Pugh

Gareth Pugh in this collection has created stunning, archaic drama and theater a collection to really mark his decade in the industry.