“This is not a sexy collection!” Andreas Schmidl was provided for Andreas Schmidl in his spring speech with Josef Lazo in Paris. “Wait, that should be your opening remark?”
He was joking, but it was about all the sexy and erotic things that were performed yesterday. Indeed, Schmidt and Lazzo’s collections themselves were barely in the top five.
For beginners, the idea here is to create a voyeuristic experience in which the model will be transformed into different outfits in a series of transparent curtains in a temporary locker room to protect them from onlookers. You guessed it, they went from a light vest to under-button down, wearing Speedos and Tees and three-thirds of trousers, all sandals, as unique to many of the collections this season. The designer explained that the cast was instructed to mix and match the series the way they like. They said they found out that the result was liberated. Seeing models just wearing clothes according to their own taste and intuition, rather than wearing them in a prescribed way, can make Lazoschmidl look more spacious.
The overall concept is over-imposed on privateness and intimacy, while revealing the way that this distinction becomes loose and sharp in the Internet age. We are more accessible than ever and our personal moments are now available with social media. However, exposure has become somewhat manifested – a person can see many people online but know nothing about them.
Schmid said they think it all is in the way that young people are here this year, including with me ready videos, “Thirst Trap” and Onlyfans. “We want to show the moment you dress up in a public place,” he said, referring to the way the video was shot might be private, but social media is not. “The pressure that society puts on male identity,” he added. Men are showing ABS and PEC, and even online, their masculinity in most cases. “You’ll see all this, but many men who are very extroverted on the internet tend to be very shy in real life,” he added. “One study shows that young people are no longer having sex because they show a lot and see so much other people that they don’t want it anymore.”
The connection between this general idea and the clothes themselves is not that simple. Lazoschmidl is actually a sexy brand. Its habit of Speedos and biker shorts and a second-layer skin vest recovered here – and more interestingly, the designers inserted some nuances into the collection. The vertical striped cotton kit, slim 90s sweater and sheer sports suit better embody this restricted space between private and intimate, sexy and sweet.
