“A contemplation of Deroit’s unique decay” read Jean Pierre Braganza’s testimonial for SS15, a perfect example of London’s design penchant for pushing the envelope with provocative stimuli, if ever there was one. This certainly did much to sway our first impressions, but it was clear from the beginning at Bragaza’s that the designer also created simply beautiful clothing.
Fierce was the byword for it all, it certainly striked up that demeanour in the flesh, with the click-clack of razor sharp stilettos complimenting the, only a fraction less sharp, fully monochrome collection. The look-by-look monochrome, with fluctuating volumes of atomic white or black successfully avoided a tedious trap though, mostly on account of the amped-up sex appeal of it all.
Never before has an LBD contained so much flashes of a certain side portion of the chest and the show’s spectators were all eyes. The crux of it all has to be the sleek notes of industrial design with some abstract twists here and there, in stylish reflection of a wo-man machine aesthetic.
Aligning nature and the artificial, Braganza further opposed anatomy and the machines with panelled modern shapes and a focus on angles as well as a rip-roaring motorcycle engine print on fine silk, adding a gunmetal sheen to many pieces. The quality that really gave SS15 it’s oomph though was its bold sexual charge, something which Braganza himself must not be all too unfamiliar with.
by Liam Feltham
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