Peter Do. Spring 2021 - New York

(Images:  Peter Do.  All credit)

Peter Do, is very much the quintessential digital based fashion designer, utilizing an interconnected landscape via the social media phenomenon as his template.  The emerging designer has been able, from previous seasons, to create set piece collections without relying heavily on the runway or buyer invites as the spectacle, rather, his signature brand selling point is done remotely through lookbook arrays and appointment only studio settings.  So, as the industry confronts the possibility of continued COVID-19 lockdowns and quarantines, Peter Do has risen to the challenge, specifically through Instragam's IGTV service for his Spring 2021 showing for a digitalized version of New York Fashion Week, he has cleverly linked live lookbook shots to the Instragam TV interface, with buying options directed towards his website.  I haven't seen a designer work the IGTV aspect in such a commercial proficiency, to which Peter Do has achieved for his latest collection. 

As noted in my review of his Pre-Fall 2020 collection, Peter Do's label is only two years old, yet he has been able to maintain the fine tailored appeal.  A trend seen before the pandemic – which was the couture inspired styles, that was an overall style forming in 2019  Before COVID-19 slammed into the industry, it had already begun reduced the grandeur, yet remaining focusing on technique.  Possibly an indication prior to the outbreak, was the beginning of slow fashion as an overall primer for the fashion industry while costs of materials have been rising and sales decreasing.   But regardless of what it was like pre the pandemic, the virus outnreak has all but smothered any trend expectations for future seasons.  Yet, what has been shown within the very few collections after the 1st lockdown is a slight reemergence of early 2000s Avant-garde styles, with their draped asymmetrical cuts and limited artesian inspired stylizations.  

Peter Do being the first designer who was able to show for New York Spring 2021 with his latest collection, does indeed fall in line with the mentioned avant-garde looks, yet under a more modernist and sleekly formed presentation, with less of an experimental perspective.  Recently nominated for Emerging Designer of the Year through the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance funding program, his latest collection holds true in a more blunt and focused array.  The styles and fits are beautifully arranged, as is his crafting of leather, fine wools and sheer silks.