Bianca Saunders Fall 2024 Ready-to-Wear: In the Details
Bianca Saunders, who won the ANDAM Fashion Prize winner in 2021, opted for an intimate cocktail reception at the Norwegian Rain & T-Michael store in Paris’ Marais district to reveal her fall 2024 collection, her first time presenting on the women’s calendar.
Saunders said that although she would love to be known as a men’s designer, she wanted to open the brand up to women’s buyers in keeping with the more unisex fit and proportions she introduced this season.
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An inspiration of the season was bodybuilders, with curving seams nodding to the way clothing conforms to muscular volumes, giving rolled shoulders to her signature jackets, warping jeans around the leg, and pulling graphic T-shirts and gingham shirts across the chest.
The more intimate format was also an opportunity to examine the details she paid close attention to this season, such as the elegant knife pleats livening up a white shirt or getting the full experience of a juicy red jacket cut from glossy coated fabric she said was inspired by Pierre Cardin’s iconic Space Age collection.
“I don’t think every collection requires a show toward it. It depends on what our focus is. This season, my focus was more on fabrication and how it looks on both genders. After doing press stuff like dressing Usher at the Met Gala, for a brand my size, I have to be more strategic,” Saunders told WWD.
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Launch Gallery: Bianca Saunders Fall 2024 Ready-to-Wear Collection
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