LOEWE SS24 WOMEN’S RUNWAY COLLECTION

Reducing fashion to the silhouette, focusing on the outline, playing with the sections, altering the proportions. Looking from afar, and then looking close, zooming in on the details.

A wardrobe in perspective: tall and vertical, for a stringent proposal of daywear. A pragmatic one. Blazers, coats, blouses, v-neck jumpers, cardigans, jeans, trousers. Long legs, waists moving high, a compact bust. Pockets and slits allow the body to assume certain postures, and the items to be defined by gestures.

A reflection on being uptight, and the sensuality that breaks it all down. Textural knits: short chunky jumpers; long capes that encase the body; dilated pullovers that flow around it. Leather as tailored outer skin: sleek coats that can be flipped under the arm on one side, like a bag; T-shirts and shorts with chewed hems.

Once again, the random act turns things around. Tops like accumulations of sparkly brooches; imperceptible feathers; outsized pins as closures. Transformative rings, cuffs, brooches, earrings and pendants have been created by Lynda Benglis as knotted, pleated, poured and extruded wearable sculptures that reflect the shifting world around them.

A muted palette of camel, grey, brown, black touched by accents of red, bougainvillea, tangerine.

Round-toe shoe silhouettes, pointy mules, ergonomic shoes, and schoolboy shoes. Buckles are scaled down and blown up. Bags in butter soft leathers punctuate the reductionist telegram with a sumptuous fluidity. The Squeeze bag, named for its squishy handle,
is handcrafted in mellow nappa. The Pebble Bucket with its distinctive pebble-shaped hardware arrives in smooth and soft grained calf, expressing different attitudes with mini and medium sizes.

Note on the artworks

LOEWE continues its collaboration with artist Lynda Benglis, presenting a group
of monumental bronze sculptures as part of the show setting, and pieces of jewellery developed in collaboration.

Lynda Benglis (b. 1941, Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA) is a giant of postwar American sculpture. Over the course of her six-decade long career, she has redefined the art object through her ceaseless innovation with form and materiality. Employing a gestural and physical engagement with matters as diverse as polyurethane, latex, sparkles, paper, plaster, bronze and water, Benglis has provocatively challenged the notion of what sculpture can be.

For the runway presentation, six large-scale bronze sculptures have been selected.
The works are enlarged and cast from a series of clay sculptures Benglis called Elephant Necklace, each made by twisting extruded lengths of soft clay into dynamic forms. Benglis has worked with clay since the early 1990s comparing her manipulation of the material
to a dance. Through enlargement, the marks and imprints of this process become viscerally exaggerated. A range of surfaces—from polished bronze to a matte black patina—reflect light in dramatically different ways, creating a shifting landscape of visual effects.

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