British fashion designer Craig Green has revealed two collections designed to resemble each other for the winter/fall 2023 and spring/summer 2024 seasons.
In the brand collection notes, the brand’s collection notes stated that the collection was based on escapism and childhood memories in the outdoors, with nature playing a significant role in explaining the group.
Most designs have a surrealist slant to the practical clothes that, according to the designer’s description, are “crumpled uniforms,” some of which are “drowned in boldly clashing colors and prints.”
Accessories are the mainstay of both collections, bags and headwear being an integral component of Green’s offerings.
Most styles are worn with a cross-body bag belt bag or clutch adorned with metallic elements that remind you of the underwater world.
Additionally, headwear takes an odd shape, evident in lace-up bucket hats or visors with padding, as well as heavily embellished face masks that look like the outfits they are paired with.
In eight styles, however, the notion of accessories is enlarged by “autonomous seeming objects” that hang from the models who are cradling the human-like, enveloping shapes.
To emphasize the two-in-one concept, two-person, and oversized Ponchos were notable statement pieces described in the words of Green in terms of “hypnotic waves” that offered an “unlikely stillness and sense of contemplation.”
The report ended: “Gathering momentum, a steady wind finally carries silhouettes to extremer climes, pushing them towards a purely gestural climax of sweeping shapes, which like rapidly scrawled instructions start to outline a new direction.”