Written by : Talha Lateef.
Since launching
her line in 2010, New York-based designer Zana Bayne has been blurring the
lines between article of clothing, accessories, and bondage-tinged harnesses at
warp speed. Recent off her big apple fashion week debut, she jetted to Paris,
her home off from home, to gift her assortment to patrons.
“The whole town
is black and gold. after I got here to Paris, I thought, Oh, therefore that’s
wherever this assortment came from,” aforementioned the raven-haired designer
of her Fall ’14 outing, artist. The lineup was galvanized by fifties-era
pictures from L’Officiel and featured black and croc-embossed cowhide and gold
elaborations.
Belts became
bras, or were elongated to seem like skirts, generally with extreme accentuated
waists. Some items were adorned with tassels, massive buckles, or further
rivets, and a underclothes feel was created via elastic details and garter
belts.
While in Paris,
Bayne welcome Rei Kawakubo to her showroom—Bayne’s leathers ar presently
sold-out at Comme des Garçons in big apple, and she’s making ready for a
project with London’s Dover Street Market within the fall. Bayne’s wares, that
ar priced between $150 and $1,500, also are carried by such stockiest as gap
Ceremony, Selfridges in London, and Paris’ Mize linear unit Cage.
Bayne aims to dress quite simply fashion’s uptight avant-garde. In fact, the formidable 25-year-old, United Nations agency has crafted items for each Prabal Gerung and Lord, is aiming for sartorial world domination. She is increasing her purse line and rending her assortment into two: the handcrafted runway varies Zana Bayne assortment, and Zana Bayne Originals, which is able to provide seasonless items from the archive.
