Nicholas K. Spring 2020 - Barcelona Fashion Week

 

(Images from the designer and the public domain. Credited to the photographer/company where applicable: WWD )

Nicholas and Christopher Kunz have offered a precision and focused collection for their Spring 2020 array.  Keeping in tune with their signature brand's ethos. Nicholas K maintains its projection and take on the bohemian chic, whilst inserting their urban and modernist imprint.  Portraying Nicholas Kunz's uniquely stylized dyed prints and flowing crosscultute styles, it holds a reminiscent cue to their 2015 Spring Ready to Wear showing, but with a darker plangency.  This newer manifestation of earlier styles is indicative of the brother and sister duo sourcing their own backlog of ideas.  Reworking the catalog of past seasons, can be an important lesson for designers, in some cases, to shift back slightly and look over styles that have developed and represented over the years.  Assists in a steadfast practice of discerning past designs, in its retrospection this can hone and sharpen present skills.  Draw from your own ideas and recalibrate into a contempory  dynamic, to which Nicholas and Christopher Kunz have achieved with their newest collection.

After several editorial and studio presentations of their prior seasons, the Kunz's have returned to the runway to promote the brand's latest ensemble.  With the theme aspects for Spring 2020 set within the romanticism of Moroccan overtures, there is the added idealism and appeal from science fiction cues -  affixed altogether and represented by the Kunz's masterful elegance.  The sex appeal is evident throughout, which is both subtle and forthright in its silhouette portrayal.  Cocktail and evening dresses for an alternative time line, maybe for the nightlife of another New York City from a parallel Earth.  As the alluring presentation of Nicholas K latest collection, gravitates from the layered and lustrous sensuality, to plunge V necklines, stylized painted foreheads and faces representing its urbanized tribalism.  Robe like attire, in contoured and revealing styles, like a humanist spiritual order, reminding me of 70's and 80's conceptual fantasy art, but rather the brother/sister team are showcasing their design's in its tangible reality.

Beautifully crafted and devised, with the fittings exceptionally portrayed on the models, as is the fabric choices.  Fine silks, wools and cottons, drapped and afixed with their signature dyed prints.