Paolina Russo returned to Copenhagen Style Week for its sophomore present, after profitable the inaugural Zalando Visionary Award final season. The London-based model’s inclusion on the schedule is a mirrored image of town’s rising international viewers, together with its give attention to sustainability.
It is sensible then that design duo Paolina Russo and Lucile Guilmard are leaning into their label’s worldwide attraction. “It’s at all times been our dream to journey with the model; we don’t see it residing in only one place,” Russo stated in a preview. “It’s superb that we will develop this group of like-minded individuals in Copenhagen.”
Shared experiences throughout borders served as the start line for this season’s assortment, entitled “Cul-de-Sac.” Russo and Guilmard grew up on dead-end roads in a suburb of Toronto and on the west coast of France respectively. “We needed to make our personal Neolithic-like cul-de-sac; our personal Paolina Russo suburb,” Russo defined.
Persevering with final season’s prehistoric theme, a round set that includes big stone-like sculptures shaped the backdrop to the night-time presentation. The designers collaborated with Danish artist Esben Weile Kjær, whose work additionally explores “suburban boredom and coming-of-age rituals,” for a efficiency that noticed fashions writhing round entangled in balloons formed just like the solar and animals, representing a contemporary tackle monolithic carvings.
In a sensible transfer for the younger model, the pair doubled down on their signature phantasm knitwear and sporty lycra separates, whereas introducing new silhouettes, reminiscent of a playful peplum-esque miniskirt, layered over joggers, and wearable wrap cardigans. The colour palette was wintry in feeling, comprising earthy tones and pastel shades impressed by the way in which delicate rainbows are shaped as “the sunshine hits the snow.”
Craft is a crucial focus, as is adopting eco-conscious strategies. Pom-pom elaborations had been constructed from leftover yarn from final season, whereas woven clothes had been naturally dyed in Scotland by inserting ice cubes on prime of powder pigments. “When the ice melts, that is when the dyes drip into the material,” Guilmard stated.
It’s clear that Paolina Russo is a model that’s rising in confidence—with its inventive administrators itching to take their nomadic imaginative and prescient elsewhere. “It’d be superb to deliver this everywhere in the world,” Russo stated. “Copenhagen is our first cease.”
