Standing Ground S/S 2025 London

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[helmutnotdead]

first relevant show of the season

 

[philophile]

first relevant show of the season

It's not even half as good as their first shows. They have a lot of potential and while I think they've done much more interesting things before I still like it. Sad that London Fashion Week is so devastatingly bland, but aside from a handful of designers, it was never relevant. Funnily people here trash a lot NYFW, but it has done much more for fashion than LFW has done for a decade. I even find Copenhagen Fashion Week much more interesting than LFW for some years now. Must be Brexit and Thatcherism taking effect.
Edit: I always found British girls to have an awfully interesting and inspiring style, but I never felt LFW represented it.

 

[VogueDisciple93]

I was greatly impressed! Not every dress/look was a success - all the leathers gave cheap and attempted - but the ones that are good are fantastic! I will definitely be following this brand/designer now. Such modernity and chicness to evening dressing.

 

[Avonlea]

Rodarte mixed with Alaia and a random Rick Owens jacket thrown in

 

[Alquimista]

Good dresses. The "pearl" details are beautiful.

It feels futuristic - an aesthetic almost completely absent in fashion nowdays.

 

[Grets]

I prefer this over the last Alaia show

 

[jeanclaude]

London Rick Owens lite (100% Tyrone free)...

 

[Cocteau Stone]

I like this. Well, I don't mind this and I do think this is a weaker collection compared to some of their last. Wish they omitted the random jacket (or did more with it) and the barely there draped dresses (or again, did more with it).

If they took a more relaxed approach to the leather to counter the rigorous and almost monastic formality of the dresses I think there would have been a nicer point of tension. Still, it's made well and the colours are rather gorgeous.

 

[brandon J pierre]

Fantastic color combos and fantastic fabrics and fabric manipulation

 

[Deleted member 167090]

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I like some of the Alaia-inspired looks, but overall it is a typical LFW collection, nothing more, nothing less!

 

[rowjellies]

Alaia dresses in worse colors and a worse cast.

 

[IloveDiorHomme]

When a young designer from LFW does a more relevant Alaïa collection than Mullier…

I love the textures he managed to create, they are so interesting. Everything is so sensual and effortless.
For sure one name to watch !

 

[susseinmcswanny]

I like this too. And what I really do like is viewing this from afar (the thumbnails first lol), the forms look great. All the details are a nice touch!

 

[tricotineacetat]

I had the opportunity for a brief exchange with Patrick, the designer behind Standing Ground - It's as I thought, for the time being, he is taking a time off from presenting collections in a show format to focus on custom-made couture.

It's without a doubt he admires the masters of couture but I don't think any resemblances to other designers are an intentional thought, but something that he arrives with by means of his very own approach and method of dressmaking.

Unlike a lot of one-hit-wonder designers that have quickly become a thing on the emerging designer circuit, I think his choice off the limelight is a sincere choice in favor of longevity, rather than quick momentum.

 

[Kanzai]

The designer looks like a WWE wrestler (could be a random member from Wyatt family) but his designs are very feminine ironically. His aesthetic is just too Alaia/Gres fanboys for my taste though

 

[rowjellies]

Tilda Swinton has been wearing his designs a lot recently

He is really auditioning for that Alaia job…