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: “All of a sudden there was a show and it was a much bigger deal than I thought,” she said. Held at The Stranger nightclub in Hell’s Kitchen, Sintra’s debut show was a bright and bubbly affair: astroturf lined the runway, attendees sat in kitschy lawn chairs, in one corner, an animatronic elephant. Her debut collection was “aggressively feminine in that it was masquerading femininity”.
By merging and melding the age-old tropes of womens and mens clothing, Sintra hoped to create a new, expansive sartorial language for women. “Gender-bending,” Sintra says, is both the label’s raison d’être and its modus operandi. “One of my goals as a designer is to pave a new way for women to exist in this world.”
Sintra’s AW22 collection delves further into this notion of liminality, advancing a more nuanced expression of womanhood. “[With] the last collection, I was projecting what I think itmean to be a woman. This collection is a bit more honest and less feminine. It’s what I think it means to be a woman,” she explains. This season, Sintra spotlighted shirting, twisting, turning and transforming menswear staples into iterations that are not quite masculine, nor feminine.
This season, Sintra was also inspired by a recent trip to Florence. “I was really captivated by the armour all over the city. It’s practically mediaeval!” she says. Her armoured womenswear — symbolic of another mode of female existence — took shape through tailoring. A tweed blazer featured fully articulated sleeves, while a camel wool jacket was cut with buttoned panels recalling knightley couters and pauldrons.
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