Moncaya, a Spanish singer-songwriter based mostly in Mexico, opened Sandra Weil’s newest present with a efficiency that raised two questions that took the viewers unexpectedly: What’s it to be human? The place is our humanity?
The gathering, referred to as Lo-Tek, “which refers back to the expertise of nature,” seeks to reply the above questions from a up to date perspective, with expertise and synthetic intelligence as new gamers in our every day lives. “This assortment is an train, a query, an invite to replicate on what makes us human and the way we differ from this intelligence: What is really ours? What is actually our humanity? What’s our personal human, non secular expertise?,” Weil defined backstage. “It’s an invite, somewhat than to worry these new applied sciences or intelligences, to discover ourselves, to not be afraid.”
Weil approached this metaphorically, dividing the gathering into blocks. The primary featured white clothes harking back to astronauts, introducing the theme of expertise and its advances as a typical thread—or concern—with surprising equipment like cables, symbolizing connectivity, one other recurring theme within the assortment. This was adopted by a extra earthly block, with nature-inspired colours, prints, and motifs that resembled veins—or maybe roots? Then got here the psychedelic block, with brighter colours however nonetheless combining the leitmotif of expertise and nature. The ultimate block introduced celebration clothes in darker tones with shiny particulars, which the designer outlined as a “extra cosmic” section.
Weil additionally embraced a literal interpretation of the themes that moved her this season, utilizing prints that resembled the connection traces seen inside a reminiscence card. These adorned key items from her model’s catalog, together with her widespread bustier and pleated saggy pants, in addition to new additions like minidresses, shorts, and vests.
For a group that began with profound, difficult-to-answer questions, Weil managed to supply a contemporary and optimistic proposal with a youthful and extra playful profile. Perhaps that’s what distinguishes people from machines—the flexibility to search out optimism, even in a chunk of clothes.
