Feeling, as he stated on a name, that “the phrase is form of sick,” Lamine Badian Kouyaté—a person who has by no means been afraid to take a stand for what he believes in—staged his fall 2024 present in respectful silence. The present came about at Le Sentier, a neighborhood that was as soon as the center of the garment district, the place usually folks from throughout the globe collect. It additionally lives within the designer’s thoughts because the birthplace of a lot beloved Parisian manufacturers of the ’80s and ’90s like “Dorothée Bis, Marithé + François Girbaud, Infinitif, Chevignon, Naf Naf, Sapon, Metropolis, La Soie de Paris, Morgan, Kokai, Sinequanone,” which he talked about within the present notes. His personal model is a part of that storied group (it was based in 1991), and the solid included many second era members of his chosen household.
On this assortment Kouyaté revisited a few of his label’s core components, specifically, “the prints, the colour, and the recycling (be aware the spiced soccer jerseys and the Hôtel du Sentier workwear).” The designer works with a silk-screener to make the prints that cowl stretch attire with their signature red-stitched seams. This lettering seemed freshest on denim—particularly notable was the “stealth” model, which was black ink printed on darkish blue denim—and the matching maxi-skirt and prime units. Kouyaté associates this skirt size with reminiscences of his older brothers and their curiosity within the American Civil Rights and Anti-Conflict actions of the late ’60s and ’70s (the place protest indicators have been notably printed with giant textual content, too.) Accordingly, the designer titled the gathering “Make Love Not Conflict.”
