Dilara Findikoglu. Fall 2020 Ready-to-Wear - London Fashion Week.

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

English Turkish designer Dilara Findikoglu, is now into her second season of showing at London Fashion Week, after graduating from Central Saint Martin's in 2016 she has been able to offer her enticing and stripped down Ready-to-Wear lineations for her signature brand. There have been two major trends which have spilled over from 2019, which are the suiting modernist styles and the mix and match ensembles via thrift shop street looks.  However, an ornate style inserted itself at the tailend of 2019; which is the allurement  of lingerie, worn as outwear pieces.  These styles graced the runways of late as a reemergence of imprinting the more risqué of women's apparel.

Findikoglu has cleverly infused her Fall 2020 Ready-to-Wear collection in lieu of personal story telling, defining the theme as 'self destruction'.  Splitting the styles on display into two dynamics; Dark Findikoglu and Light Findikoglu, as an exposé of the self in of its duality which is capable of portraying a good and bad persona. Without overstating the dramatics in respect to her runway show, human beings inherently embrace both the saintly whilst at the same time allowing a ruthless attainment for the desirable, in all of its hypocrisy. So the problem, as a general perspective, is when social commentary begins to interject into fashion and other visual dynamics, it can fall, in most cases, into the predictability of a backlash.  In turn only to reiterate the self centered fears of wayward ambition, that has always been lead by the ego of an artist or designer.  It is far better and skillful when ambiguity is utilized and more so an obscurity to make the viewer think a little harder.  It is when the spotlight is shone upon the cult of celebrity, that expectations begin to align within the collective idealism.  This has always occurred at the expense of the individual.  Maybe Findikoglu, despite being an emerging designer, is breaking free from those ambitious expectations. 

Her latest collection is, in a nonchalant way, offering her personal devil-may-care attitude. Body suits, thigh high splits, satin and velvet. The sheer and revealing styles have been enveloped into Findikoglu's eccentricity.  It is no doubt  the overall styles presented, hold a prurience of desire via her avant garde creations.  An amorousness of intensity, with large doses of red and darker hues.  With the bohemian sex appeal seeping through, all expressed within its theatrical setting. Yet, Findikoglu has also shown her skills, for a RTW collection,  of a couture precision.