Last night I went to the Soho Grand for the Damir Doma SS 2010 presentation hosted by Seven New York. The looks were set up in a room of their own, on well lit mannequins for viewing only, but of course I couldn’t curb my touch when it came to this collection. Garments of this caliber have a voice and believe me they speak to me, in a way that makes me question my sanity, perhaps it can be diagnosed as a form of Schizophrenia ~ Fashion Schizophrenia, a feeling that words do no justice describing.
The collection had elements of eastern and western influences, though it was predominantly a dialogue between Indian an Japanese aesthetics on exploring “interpretations of contemporary masculinity.” I could compare his avant-garde niche to a fusion of Yohji Yamamoto and Raf Simmons, though his style is taking on a very distinctive identity through his self-titled label Damir Doma. The varying silhouettes, layering and fabrications take Damir’s work to alternative levels of menswear complexity which make him one of the most interesting new designers of our generation.
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September 13th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
Congratulations on creating two intelligent paragraphs of copy.
Should I have been given the assignment of covering this show, I'm afraid all I would have been able to muster is, “You can't be serious…”
September 15th, 2009 at 1:07 am
Dearest Stephan,
all I could do for you regarding your promotion of the damir-doma collection is to put it in a superb English.
But I am afraid that well-off customers want to look like rags, especially in these days….
September 20th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
this collection is elegant, but ultimately seems like a bunch of high-end rags thrown together.