A s the 2016 Resort collections continue to roll out, another pattern reveals itself. Each added aspect reflects our mindset as interpreted by the clever artistic foresight of the successful designer who know to tap into the current populace and pick up where to lead us forward.
As mentioned in previous articles, we are now at a stage where we have taken elements and mixed them up to find a new vocabulary for our 21st century. Some designers are handling this via detail assembly while tapping into retro aspects to win over customers with familiarity as security. Some, such as MM6 Maison Martin Margiela, are understanding that the restyling is a possible path towards finding this new approach, piling on layers and mixing new proportions of elements to lead us towards new cuts and silhouette aspects that act as an apt bridge representing where our new generation is hinting towards.
Preen is taking this approach with material layering to illuminate new texture via combination and architecture. That patchworking to create new perspectives was also seen by Clover Canyon in a few items. While the obvious details are long familiar, the recombination, especially with Preen, shows the haphazard assembly withing overall general form, thus the details show newness in perspective while familiarity is maintained with the overall silhouettes.
These approaches show the willingness to embrace the chaos as the new voice, much like how we are today as we brave a new world and, through trial and error, find a new way of being. Our new world is technical, will take out a lot of the familiar and introduce new aspects in all ranges of our daily lives beyond what we can see, especially as companies like Google are using their labs to find ways to introduce aspects of tech into things like textiles to interact with our environment.
Each season becomes a step closer to showing us what our new world will be. We are starting to get hints now and it's, like they noticed last century, not at all what was expected. It will be interesting to see what else the 2016 Resort collections will bring forward.