The aggressive chiptune that demanded silence at the beginning of Fyodor Golan’s SS15 show in the graffiti-ed up Waterloo Vaults was Golan’s second narrative build-up, following said “street” art. Soon after the thrashing soundtrack commenced, the raver girls and tripped-out boys sealed the deal with an acidic kick, FG had gone go-go digital emotion. Celebrating “digital Romanticism” they bit the bullet that many high-profile designer’s the world over are afraid to do, doing ‘90s rave culture on the grandest of scales thus far. While tapping into adolescence, the sky-high platform heels that models trotted out in were strictly NC-17, but this probably had more to do with “celebrating the plastication of modernity”.
From start to end, it was a VHS-era Technicolor storm of folded, pleated and treated neon plastics and silicones in a number of club-kid creations that would be ideal of LFW’s peacock set. While this was true to see, with the exception of the colourblind, Fyodor and Golan did slow the pace down and introduce more practical wearability with pieces inspired by the geometric shapes of Minimalist architecture. But the design duo’s real strength was in the daring extroverted showpieces and you could tell that all they really wanted to do, in deep theory, was explore digital reality. Naturally, there will be those who want to do that with them, snapping up the collection in no time.
by Liam Feltham
Images courtesy of Fyodor Golan