American Sportswear Reconquered Alexander Wang Spring 2015 Collection

| 7 September 2014

Coming off his collaboration this year with H&M, Alexander Wang has had all American sportswear on the brain. His resort collection was engrossed with the concept of care instructions and things being ruined by washing, with exquisite leather T-shirts with raw edges or on impervious PVC slickers that intersected with detailed stripes of opposing color. This time, Wang reinterpret the urban, androgynous aspect, by injecting an unimpeachable tailoring techniques brought up to the minute with leather, string enmeshing and rubber. Wang is also a sneakerhead, implied the sporty shoes as the design element, reinterpreting iconic styles as clothes. The renowned Nike’s Flyknits were refined as clingy body-con dresses in electric colors, such as yellow, pink, green, blue and orange.

“I took what was recognisable about sneaker – the codes and the colouring and the patterning as the format for these different gangs of girls. Because with sneakers a lot of it is about identification,” Wang explained backstage after the show.

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