Nicholas K. Fall 2020 Ready-to-Wear - New York Fashion Week.

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

Nicholas K, as a brand has always been able to utilize the more expressive of the avant garde styles, the notable draped ensembles of layered and asymmetrical pieces, which as an overall trend, has moved slightly back from the runways of late, allowing a straighter cut and modernist styles to take center stage.  Personally, I have a fondness for the mystique of these darker and esoteric inspired aspects of the avant garde, as long as it doesn't swing too much in the direction of costume design.  If designed and created well as a style, it can reflect a purposeful urban aesthetic.  

The sister and brother duo of Nicholas and Christoper Kunz has long referenced the tribal and spiritualist aspects as their template in formulating ideas, since they devised their brand when it came into prominence in 2011, although their styles not only affixes elements of the traditional Bedouin as an influence.  They also project a cimmerian imprint from their unique cabalistic styling, defining more of an occultish look, whilst at the same time representing an interesting and original appeal.  Which could be viewed in its romanticism of a dystopian style humanist cult, that meditates on the Universal structure and the arcane of existence.  That we may be the part of nature, yet, it is distinctly indifferent to us.  So we may learn to survive within the tumultuousness of its cosmic engine, whilst embracing the Stygian. The Void.  Yes, I am a writer.  Always inspired by the styles and interesting designs of the Kunz's.

Nicholas in her ethical design techniques has continued to maintain the variants of styles, showing her skills in utilizing a very diverse blend of fibrous materials such as Modal, Tencal and Rayon, in crafting the Nicholas K collections.   So there is an effortlessness  in her draped styles, which have been created to represent the charm of the runic, yet also promoted as an individual desirability – these are not mass produced pieces.  

For their Fall 2020 collection, Nicholas K has offered a divine exclusivity that harnesses the glamorousness of the feminine, in all of its delphic enchantment.