Fashion designer Iveta Vecmane has just presented her latest collection, Melancholia X, designed in collaboration with her daughter Hanna. This time, the X in the collection’s title stands not only for its sequential number in the brand’s Melancholia series but also refers to the unknown, as well as to the intersection of various opposites. The feminine silhouettes of the brand have been given a more robust shape and complemented with handcrafted elements.
Iveta Vecmane’s new collection X comes as a chronological continuation within the brand’s fashion line series Melancholia. As the name implies, X is the tenth consecutive number, yet there is more to unfold while detaching one contextual layer from the other. According to Iveta, in today’s information space, way too many concepts are being trivialised. Hence, there is a growing desire to distance ourselves from loud words and labels, instead revealing the story of the unknown through fashion. «We use X to metaphorically lift up a blanket and uncover the intersection of good and evil, light and dark, past and future, horizontal and vertical, feminine and masculine. X allows us to play with this variability, and we used it as a source of great inspiration in creating this year’s collection,» Iveta Vecmane reflects on the creative process.
The collection is an outcome of meeting two generations, with each designer bringing their own experience and vision. The brand’s signature silhouettes in the collection are complemented by handcrafted elements that herald the continuity of values and the heritability of wisdom. Iveta’s daughter Hanna Vecmane, who is currently studying at the Riga Art and Design Secondary School, contributed fresh perspectives and interpretations to the existing concepts. «Clothing, as a key element forming a person’s image, sometimes allows us to hide and sometimes, on the contrary, to identify and highlight our identity, values, and personality. Clothing is a mask that we literally wear every day,» says Hanna.
The collection has just been shown at the 39th Riga Fashion Week, with the runway presentation having an uncharacteristically dark atmosphere for the brand. As the authors of the collection point out, mystical, ethereal images reflect our inner world, confusion at times, and the unpredictability and unknown. New, uncharacteristic, more bold and robust silhouettes are integrated into the canons of geometric shapes and pure colours, typical to the brand, hence symbolising openness to the new and ever-changing world. The new collection also includes clothes that allow for a free interpretation of gender, another variable. While the long hair braids present at the runway symbolise generations, ancestral experience, emotional value, and the ability to experience the present that we accumulate and carry within us.
More about the collection — on Iveta Vecmane’s website.
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