Natasha Zinko presents the fall winter 2023 collection in London.
Collection Notes
Don’t make me angry. You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry.
She’s a lawyer. He’s a physicist. She goes to court. She wears a blazer, a pencil skirt, and a pair of heels. She’s shy. He is too. They’re cousins. They also occasionally grow to become super-strong, green-skinned Hulks.
Channeling the duality of Marvel Comics’ green cousins – Bruce (the original Hulk) and Jen (she got his ‘powers’ after a blood transfusion) – Natasha Zinko’s FW23 collection gives powerful women the center stage in the court-appropriate personified by She-Hulk.
Superheroism is messy at times, so the two aren’t always so clean-cut. The court-appropriate – embodied by corporate tailoring (pencil skirts, fitted blazers), formal footwear, compact briefcases, and a white silk tie-neck blouse recreated from the pages of She-Hulk’s original Savage run – isn’t flawless.
Details
Skirts are ripped, pointed toes curve in shape, blazers have ruptured seams, and, thanks to 3D-printing technology, spikes of different lengths and sizes divulge briefcases. The women re-appropriate the masculine power of the Hulk; the white t-shirt’s tattered remains and feminized purple denim trousers-made shorts constitute a direct reference to the character’s comic look.
The MONSTER referred to by the collection’s title is the one within. There is a monster in all of us. The Monster women must be revealed to conquer and equalize a world run by men somewhere beyond the outer layers of civility.
This collection explores what it takes to unleash it; for some, if comic books have taught us anything, that may be a heavy dose of radiation; for others – the transformative power of clothes.
Collection
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