With an exotic name that just rolls of the tongue, there’s almost an expectation to the kind of clothes Risto Bimbiloski designs. Nuances of colour, clothing that is richly decorated and adorned. Having featured the Macedonian native, New-York based designer previously on our blog it’s fair to say one should never expect anything but to be surprised.
Shying away from typical Americana sportswear, and that other mainstay on New York’s catwalk, minimalism, and far away from any kind of fast fashion, Risto’s new season is a New-Age fusion of eastern ethnicity and western sav. It’s a kind of gothic, and slightly dangerous style. Albeit one that’s cosy. Winter sees a return to Risto’s indigenous roots, where folk-inspired elements of craftmanship (east) are mixed with digital print technology (west). As with previous collections, tactile textures abound as delicate, hand-crafted knits, that draw parallels to an arachnid’s web, dominate the silhouette. Prints were inspired by Nicolas Sassoon, an artist who specialises in animations and bit-maps images. His series, Until The End, seems to have been perfectly adapted for the catwalk and this is the kind of collection that has a perfect balance between nostalgia and tradition, and reverance to the future.
