Descent of Human, and Natural Selection in Relation to the Love. AW22
Photographer: Scott Bowlby Stylist: Marc Goehring Make up: Leo Kerrigan Production: Nina Schaarschmidt Shoes Collaboration : Atelier Vania Headwear Collaboration: Noel Stewart
Descent of Human, and natural Selection in Relation to Love is a menswear collection made in the most un-masculine traditional way by combining a sartorial base, traditionally feminine fashion elements and theatrical experience, in order to create a new identity: a “powerful and revolutionary human”, capable of breaking the traditional stereotypes of fashion and embracing it as a medium through which people can feel powerful.
Those values, which are personal to Albor, were inspired by the Dandy´s approach to style as well as by the animal instincts and silhouettes, especially birds (the figure of the “peacocks”), which are known for being the most beautiful. Those references translated into voluminous and dramatic constructions, yet elegant and soft. Clothes that speak the language of opposition, “linking the binary through desire”. This is the idea of a hypersexualized man; a man that can be fashionable, coquettish, but also rough, showing their animal and sexual side.
The garments are environmentally conscious, crafted using deadstock fabrics and incredibly detail-oriented. Specially destined for non-traditional bodies, they reassure Albor's idea of fashion as a social actor: as a “new masculinity is melting”, and a “revolution of love” is approaching.
Text by Carmen Baniandres
