Abstract
- Impressed by her childhood reminiscences at Kensington Market, Martine Rose offered a various SS26 assortment that includes classic sportswear, styled and edited with subversive touches.
For her SS26 presentation, Martine Rose invited a market of distributors to the Job Centre in Lisson Grove, London, to pay homage to her reminiscences of visiting the eclectic Kensington Market.
With fashions donning frizzy wigs as they strutted via the closely draped room, Rose’s newest assortment continued to mix traditional British sportswear codes along with her avant-garde sensibilities. Leather-based pants, cut-off denim shorts, and cinched or skinny matches give a horny edge to, performance-inspired jackets, soccer jerseys, and 80s-inspired knitwear.
In a single look, a mannequin wore a bold-shoulder blazer, cinched on the waist, checked boxers completed with delicate lace, and soccer knee socks with loafers. Elsewhere, a graphic white tank high was paired with typographically printed trousers and a ruffled skirt overtop. Concurrently masculine and female, and evocative of each the workplace and the nightclub, the collision of the banal and the eccentric is signature to Rose’s ethos, drawing inspiration from her London childhood.
Daring hues and unconventional silhouettes make their mark on the gathering, including curiosity to on a regular basis types. In a extra colourful quantity, a mannequin wore a scorching pink “Complete Participation” sport polo with light denim, coated in a retro technicolor print. Toying with dimension and form, an artificial rain poncho was blown to outsized proportions, and a black puffer coat boasted a thin, cosy match on the waist.
See the gallery above for a more in-depth have a look at the total Martine Rose SS26 assortment.
