PONDER.ER presented their Fall Winter 2021 at Paris Fashion Week in form of a digital presentation “Where a Man Belongs”. While it was selected by the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode on the official calendar for the international fashion community to watch from around the world, we had the chance to attend the premiere in Paris hosted by HKFG and Fashion Farm Foundation.
This season we see the brand continue to explore the identities of cowboys in the modern context. Plaids, checks that make up western wardrobes are twisted and reconfigured in abstract forms with a certain level of playfulness. PONDER.ER’s signature “HUG” shirt is reinvented with distorted patterns and touches of faux leather.This season also saw the brand developing their ideas with sustainable materials, the pandemic has presented the brand the opportunity to reflect on the way they designer and create.
Credits Designers: Derek Cheng and Alex PO of PONDER.ER Videographer: Daniel Teo Stylist: Inggrad Shek Photographer: Roni Ahn
The offering is relaxed yet polished. It includes rugby shirts, lightweight shell jackets, and everyday T-shirts that speak to the brand’s modern-prep influences.
James Edward photographed by Jess Segal and styled by Heloise Chauvenhei, with creative direction by Charlotte Carter, in exclusive for Fucking Young! Online.
PUMA’s Talon sneaker, first launched in 2004, is a relic from a specific time. It’s a shoe pulled from the archive, but its new collaboration with NO/FAITH Studios is about more than just nostalgia.
This season confirms SHOOP’s design approach. It draws from the everyday and reinterprets it through a poetic, modern lens, creating a language that joins the functional with the emotional.
Turn the page. Breathe deep. Your pupils are already dilating. The high is coming.
Issue 26 brings together two electrifying covers that take the dopamine dive from Sadiq Desh captured by Cris Cerdeira to multidisciplinary visual artist and photographer Tomás Pintos’ cover story, Besos hasta agotar stock (Kisses Until Sold Out), developed from the live performance creating a space where glamour
meets exhaustion.
