Given the new collection of Joseph Altujra, you will never guess that it was a technology about which he was thinking about. But that was right to him. Speaking before the show, he explained, “We were talking a lot about AI and when you cannot tell whether something is real or not.” Although it hardly needs to be said, Altujara is very high in favor of real, but in this season he set to experiment with surface details, which cheated the eye and surprised you. Like flowers on the top and dress, which looked like a two-dimensional details from the front, but then, as you examined them more closely, 3D came out. Or, flipping the script, “stall” which was actually a depiction of the bird wings that surrounded a neckline.
Altuzarra likes to like that feeling unnaturally. They feel that it resonates with the current world environment, but in real dip never disturbed the overall spirit of the collection. The silhouette-wise, he said that he was thinking about “different time capsules” including the 40s and 80s. These references have been roaming for their work for the past several sessions, although here they have carried them somewhat forward than before. For example, balloon pants. That silhouette is suddenly everywhere. Probably, it is the effect of Cemna Kamali’s Cloe, although Georgio Armani also seems to be a reference point. Altuzarra was walking around with these rows at least three cycles earlier, but here they came in full flower, the only pants option of the show.
How reverse is our world? Well, despite this being a spring season, Altujara showed a significant amount of impure fur, as Alexander Wang did it last night in his show. Swing back offered a strong counterpoint with funnel-neck leather and suede jacket: strong, strict and real, no question about it.
