Wellington based Twentysevennames army stomped the catwalk today with their winter collection” Butter not Bombs”.Twentysevennames chose to wear their hearts on their backs rather than their sleeves, with the backs of garments emblazoned with punk style pro peace slogans.
A relaxed confidence flowed through the show, with the models hair styled into messy top knots , minimal styling, 60's style Lennon glasses and unpretentious music: Snoop Dogg...
The Inspiration appeared to be broad and could be explained by the designers spending a lot of time in Op Shops. Military Anoraks, Oversized Men’s shirts, chunky hand-knitted knits, Vintage shrunken blazers and marching band jackets. All these looked to be thrown in the mix in refreshing ways providing a broken silhouette, with Twentysevennames then appropriating them with their own handwriting.
Colour was limited to Black, White, Cream, Dusky pink and a faded out military green. With tonal colours styled together for maximum effect.
Highlights were the man style white shirts with unexpected seaming and layering, very fresh. Knee length Capes with trench style detailing, and the 6 button high breaking jackets for both boys and girls that had a childish Edwardian charm to them.
It is good to see that Twentysevennames a label known as street wear label is moving away from relying on knits and tee shirting as show fillers. Editing these from the catwalk gives more scope to play with tailoring and begin to offer other garments than printed tee's, showing that Twentysevennames is growing up.
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