Songzio’s 25FW collection, Piccadill, presents a powerful narrative that fuses historical aesthetics with modern sensibilities, the east with the west, and opulence with rebellion.
Songzio deeply studies classical works, capturing the values, characteristics, and allure of different cultural eras. This collection converges the baroque’s opulence with the avant-garde’s radical experimentation to create a new look.
The Piccadill was a type of structured, often elaborate piece of ornamental collar extending from the collarbones to the neckline. Typically made from rich fabrics such as silk and linen, it featured intricate details and embroidery, serving not only as a decorative element but more importantly as a visual representation of class and privilege. Songzio’s 25FW collection reinterprets the Piccadill, once a symbol of social status and privilege, by breaking free from classical conventions and transforming it into a bold and rebellious symbol of the avant-garde spirit.
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Inspired by the works of Velasquez, this collection captures the emotional depth and psychological complexity of its wearer. In fact, the hero of the collection exudes an introspective air, dignified aura yet a sense of mysteriousness that transcends mere physicality. The clothes are innovatively cut, richly layered and intricately constructed to create a complex visual effect, concealing yet revealing the wearer’s body and emotions.
Reinterpreting the baroque with Songzio’s own avant-garde elegance, the collection features dramatic silhouettes and experimental patternmaking. The voluminous garments of exaggerated proportions are deconstructed and reassembled through complex cutting and patchworking. Unique bias cut-out pieces are assembled and pleated to create technical and innovative pieces.Commanding attention with every detail, the ornamental aspects of the baroque are also rejuvenated through Songzio’s own artworks, embroidered and hand painted onto the garments that are rich in texture and avant-garde in form. This combination of baroque’s opulent, ornate details with the radical, experimental ethos of the avant-garde gives birth to boundary-pushing creativity and dynamic narrative that bridges past and present, tradition and innovation, elegance and chaos.
Songzio’s 25FW collection is also heavily influenced by its oriental origins, integrating principles of simplicity, fluidity, and asymmetry into the collection rebelling against the structured, conventional forms of the west. Garments are intentionally unfinished with raw edges, asymmetrically draped and pleated with an evolving, non-linear approach. In fact, the tailored exuberance of the west converges with the raw fluidity of the east to create a unique look.
The collection features complex and unconventional applications of fabrics: richly textured tweed, boucle, and linen wool, heavily washed and waxed cotton, to metallic and holographic fabrics as well as opulent velvet, satin and silk. Just as Velázquez emphasized light and texture to add depth to his paintings, this collection utilizes the ever-changing textures, volumes, reflections, and sheen of the fabrics to create a dynamic multidimensionality.
Songzio’s 25FW collection is prominently dark with muted tones of black, brown, and grey with vibrant accents of rich vivid colors. In fact, the dramatic contrast of darkness and the baroque color palettes of red, vermillion, and yellow with an unexpected metallic sheen converge tradition and freedom, grandeur and elegance, order and disorder. The deconstruction of shapes, contrasts between disparate materials, experimental patterns, and rich volumes highlight the creativity of each piece, presenting Songzio’s independent style through the combination of diverse and new forms.
The sound performance accompanying Songzio’s 25FW collection, Piccadill, mirrors the collection’s narrative of converging contrasts and radical reinterpretation. Performed live by Joon Kwak and Max Frimout on modular synthesizers, alongside Binkbeats manipulating industrial metal sheet percussion, musically combining structure with chaotic experimentation. Joon Kwak and Max Frimout process Binkbeats’ metal instrument sounds live, layering modular textures with transformed metallic resonance and noise.
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