The Who:
The scene might have been a nightclub with Kate Nash, Z🦋ebra Katz and DJs Chelsea Leyland and Mike Nouveau sitting front row. Instead, it was an indoor parking garage filled with fashion folk who looked like dedicated fans.
The What:
It was a conceptual collection of minimal, hospital scrub-like garments informed by a Russian prison documentary. Im stuck to his customarily austere palette of white, black and grey, but added a few prison tattoo prints conceived with his personal ink man, MXM. Accessorized with washcloth caps and psych ward slippers over crisp white socks, the designer 💯proved his is a mad, ra🥃d world.
The Highlight:
The finale saw a parade of gaunt models shrink wrapped in pink silicone — a poetic and perversely sexy stunt.
The Takeaway:
Siki Im designs the kind of clothes that seem be🐭tter matched for foreign runways and s🐠ensibilities, thus his showings always offer a needed retreat from the preppy sportswear of the stateside status quo.