Bassike. Fall 2020 Ready-to-Wear - New York Fashion Week.

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Australian brand Bassike holds a degree of ambiguity, which I say in a positive way.  Created by Deborah Sams and Mary Lou Ryan in 2006, establishing their first shop in the suburb of Paddington, Sydney.  Now also located in Los Angeles and New York, with a shared visionary concept, lead by Sams as the brand's Creative Director, to create limited ranges of styles using high quality materials.  With their past lookbook's akin to a modernist take of the avant garde, the brand's styles have always sided with the more stylized darker and draped concepts of aesthetics, all within the focus of functionality.  So, in my opinion, in gives the brand a type of mystique, an alluring uniqueness while delivering its exclusivity, which is their version of the urban chic. 

With categorisations aside, Bassike has been able to maintain its stalwart fixture since their Spring Ready-to-Wear debut in 2019 for New York Fashion Week.  To which their Fall 2020 RTW collection maintains a progression of the brand's subtle, yet poignant arrays.  There is an attractive integrity and raw determination which Bassike represents, whilst at the same time offering the seductive overture devised by Sams and Lou Ryans in their latest styles. 

Setting a precedence from their Fall 2020 lookbook, as an effortless style of inner city charm, portayed in all of its grit and beauty.  There are Lampasse striped pants, clean and focused cuts, to which their Fall 2020 styles are the most structured styles from Bassike to date.  With beautifully draped fine wools and linen, leather jackets and shorts.  Sams has maintained the simplicity in layering the various pieces, ensuring also that there is a practicality expressed within this collection.  Offering a total of 19 outfits, the overall look's represented under Bassike's mix and match banner, have ensured the brand continues on setting a standard of durability and quality.