Consider the next scenario: it is Saturday evening and you dance in a nightclub – you are full of the youthful energy needed for the activity, that is. You look up to find a well -known but completely unexpected face. It is your grandmother, who is broken from the club building to dance her heart. You also recognize her outfit. It is her best Sunday – there is only a few hours left until the morning, after all.
Reid Baker and Inês Amorim are aware of, if at the same time amused by the ridiculousness of this concept. The umbrella idea was a more specific juxtap position: “Goth grandma.” The idea here, they explained to their presentation this afternoon in Paris, was to use the tried and tested elements of Ernest W. Baker, in particular the old-school cool rooted in sharp customization and a certain dressiness, with something that would break up aesthetically. Enter: goth, or at least their version of it.
The designers remixed a few of their own HITS scarcity torches, customized zipper coats and hand crocheted knits with some goth-aging details: blood-red beads over the knits or subtly placed on the side seams of pants; high contrast black and white flowers that have been refurbished with or on top of cheetah prints placed; And black patent, much of it, over customization and a fantastic pair of almost knee -high boots.
Baker and Amorim have certainly been more adventurous in the past, but this was still a very effective delivery. It is a complicated climate for independent designers. Who could be wrong to do what they do best? “There is also this idea to know yourself,” said Baker, with regard to placing the grandmother in the heart of their collection. Self -consciousness comes with age, and that is one thing that these designers seem to have clearly: Ernest W. Baker knows exactly who he is.