Kiko Kostadinov. RTW Spring 2019 – London Fashion Week

(Images from Vogue.com and wwd.com and the public domain. All rights. Used in promotion of the designer.)

Kiko Kostadinov is one of the more original designers to come out of the UK at the moment. With a defining Avant-garde take on sleek modernist looks. There also appears to be a creative dark side with his collections as noted with my reviews of prior seasons (please refer to this link https://chiasmusadrianglass.wordpress.com/2017/06/12/kiko-kostandinov-mens-spring-summer-2018-london-fashion-week-overview/).  Despite not overusing black as an achromatic fixture, even with the bold color ranges, his collections hold a cimmerian intensity - which can be seen as an influences via movies and set productions with its conceptual ideas.  As noted in my running commentary on fashion and consume/design.  A clever designer can merge the two and create a unique perspective within his or her collections, which also attains a handy skill base in utilizing consume design as a backdrop to test their abilities in showcasing broader styles. 

For Kostadinov's Spring 2019 Ready-to-Wear collection, he has moved away from a predominantly men's range to compliment female inspired styles with the hiring of sisters Deanna and Laura Fanning (I haven't heard of them before), two interns who have now taken the creative reigns for his female collection/s. Whilst maintaining Kostadinov's vision of pre and post dystopian styles which have its roots in the late 1970s and early 1980s science fiction influences  Which owes a lot of its conceptualization from artists like Syd Mead to the early French, now defunct adult comic Métal hurlant ala the art of the late (and great) Moebius.

Beautifully cut and tailored clothes which are fitted in line with, as mentioned, Kostadinov's influences.  Modernist pattern work, inter-layered with a retro sci-fi 1970s and 1980s color spectrum of bright reds, yellows, sunset orange, burgundy, blues and greens. Fusing styles, the Fanning sisters have incorporated materials, such as polyamide, fine wool, nylon and the metallic shimmer of Lurex which suit the nebulous Kiko Kostadinov themes.