Loewe Illuminates the Art of Doing More With Less

March 07, 2023

At Paris Fashion Week, Loewe did much more with less. The Spanish fashion house presented its FW23 Women’s collection at the Château de Vincennes on Friday, featuring bright confetti cubes sprawled on a white runway for models to parade past. Installed by Italian artist Lara Favaretto, the cubes collapsed into puddles of primary color with every passing look to underscore the show’s central theme: transience.

Like the puddles of confetti, all things must pass. Fashion is certainly no exception to this rule, with brands racing to produce seasons well in advance. Loewe weighed in on this idea through blurred images that were printed on white duchesse dresses, nodding to fashion’s fleeting nature. Other hints of passing included collapsing boots and slouchy bags, paying homage to the house’s beginnings in leather goods. Dovetailing with the fall/winter men’s collection, each look paid heed to the singularity of a silhouette as an embrace of reductionism. By reducing garments to their fundamental shape, Loewe was able to achieve novelty through subtle details such as texture, draping, and proportion rather than gimmicks.

At a time when we are so fixated on the future, creative director Jonathan Anderson uses reductionism to reflect on the past. Like blank canvases, the white dresses afford him the space to transform memories into art that is both current and forward-looking. After all, for Anderson, “That’s the beauty of fashion[:] that you can revisit, reinterpret, reengineer.”

Text by Meyme Nakash
Photos courtesy of Loewe

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Nikolaj Hansson Joins Diadora Legacy as Creative Director

October 31, 2024

Diadora's appointment of Danish designer Nikolaj Hansson as Creative Director for its Legacy line signals a fresh chapter for the brand. Known for his Copenhagen-based label Palmes, Hansson’s connection to Diadora began in childhood, admiring the brand’s iconic boots on Premier League defenders. Now, his deep respect for Diadora’s heritage and his vision for merging craftsmanship with progressive design will shape the brand’s premium Legacy line.

His first collection launching in Fall/Winter 2025, will blend his design ethos with Diadora’s storied history, tapping into both the brand’s past and a modern sensibility. Diadora’s CEO, Claudio Bora, shares Nikolaj Hansson's vision of sport as an emotional, daily experience, aiming to create apparel that resonates with the spirit of sport itself. As Hansson says, "the falling in love was mutual," and together, they aim to reignite that spark in a new generation of fans.