{"id":86725,"date":"2024-02-11T16:27:06","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T05:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&p=246870"},"modified":"2024-02-12T06:45:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T06:45:08","slug":"nyfw-collina-strada-gives-fashion-the-strong-arm","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/nyfw-collina-strada-gives-fashion-the-strong-arm\/","title":{"rendered":"NYFW: Collina Strada Gives Fashion The Strong-Arm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Collina Strada, Umberto Fratini on behalf of GORUNWAY<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hillary Taymour, the coruscating creative and founder of progressive label Collina Strada, is not your usual designer. The self-confessed \u201cchaotic\u201d is determined to make her business as much about social issues and regeneration as it is about her unique brand of self-expression.<\/p>\n

Underneath the Rockefeller Center in New York City yesterday, Taymour divulged the idea of a metaphoric, and literal gym, for fall\/winter 2024. Named \u201cStronger\u201d, the idea was to build and encourage female strength – in all incarnations. The presentation featured a pregnant woman, disability advocates, a model carrying her co-dressed toddler, CIS women, trans-women and women of many sizes and ages all cast to carry the ode to the enduring toughness of feminine identification.<\/p>\n

Like with all Collina Strada seasons, ensembles were a cacophony of vintage layers, textural opposites and deliberately clashing genres. The gathered chiffon muscle blouse in sea-foam green worn with psychedelic silk trousers was a stand out as was the plaid day coat-and-tracksuit combo worn by 80\u2019s screen queen Gina Gershon. Additionally, the slashy gowns, diaphanous flame skirts, quilted velvet tie-dye coats and mango-hued tartan suits caused visible awe in the crowd – particularly that of a gob-smacked Tommy Dorfman.<\/p>\n

Taymour\u2019s fashion manifesto has always been to rely on materials either upcycled or sustainably produced – this includes off-cut dead-stock, rose sylk and recycled cotton. The result is a unique kind of op-shop fantasia, one that is not only globally sensitive but vocally positive in slashing traditionalist fashion agendas.<\/p>\n

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Collina Strada, Umberto Fratini on behalf of GORUNWAY<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Collina Strada, Umberto Fratini on behalf of GORUNWAY<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Gina Gershon for Collina Strada, Umberto Fratini on behalf of GORUNWAY<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A mash-up of Britney\u2019s \u201cStronger\u201d played as the models paraded in pieces that seemed to give them an undeniable and infectious confidence. Several carried crafted pumpkin-ended dumbbells – and they weren\u2019t afraid to use them. Chaotic as she may make it seem, Taymour\u2019s vision resonates with a broadening crowd. Fashionistas who love the theatre of dress but not the negative impact.<\/p>\n

It is of course a wonderful trip, to view the kaleidoscopic wilderness of a Collina Strada show. The artistic projections (by Taymour\u2019s art director Charlie Engman) engage you in a kind of psychological escape – like a memory montage from Scooby Doo<\/em> or The Magic School Bus<\/em> – on acid. And, for a designer who’s taken inspiration from everything from giant turnips to pig snouts to, um, Lauren Conrad<\/a>, such references are more than likely to be pinned to her mood-board.<\/p>\n

For this collection Taymour used the term \u201cswole\u201d to describe both the mood and the execution. Famously used by Tupac in his song \u201cWhen I Get Free\u201d (released posthumously in 1997) its urban-dictionary definition of (the usually masculine form of) muscular braun makes this a facetiously perfect mic-drop.\u00a0 Emotionally, politically, ironically and comically apt. How very Collina Strada.<\/p>\n

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Collina Strada, Umberto Fratini on behalf of GORUNWAY<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Collina Strada, Umberto Fratini on behalf of GORUNWAY<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Collina Strada, Umberto Fratini on behalf of GORUNWAY<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Collina Strada, Umberto Fratini on behalf of GORUNWAY<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Collina Strada, Umberto Fratini on behalf of GORUNWAY<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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