Sanderlak’s Year 01: Los Angeles, Collection II Explores the City After Dark
by Anna Barr
“This is Los Angeles from sunset and into night: buzzing neon signs, dry landscapes washed in the unnatural glow of highway lights, and faded missing dog and cat posters peeling from walls. The city feels darker and more dangerous once the sun disappears. It is not a safe place, you feel that most at night, and yet the beauty remains. Glamour and decay exist side by side.” – Sander Lak
During Paris Fashion Week Men’s last month, Sanderlak released Year 01: Los Angeles, Collection II that continues designer Sander Lak’s ongoing dialogue with the city. Following the sun-drenched optimism of Collection I, this second chapter turns toward the nocturnal, capturing Los Angeles in the charged hours just before and after dark.
When we met Lak during fashion week, he walked us through the collection in a playful yet intimate setting, seamlessly interchanging looks between menswear and womenswear. The fluidity underscored his instinctive approach to proportion and silhouette, garments shifting across the spectrum with ease, unified by mood rather than category. Where the first installment reveled in overexposure and the euphoric haze of constant sun, Collection II embraces neon glare, shadow, and artificial light. Lak constructed the palette from years of iPhone images, fleeting fragments reduced to pure color, forming a story of buzzing signs, dry landscapes lit by highway glow, and peeling posters fading into cracked walls.
Born in Brunei and educated at ArtEZ and Central Saint Martins, Lak’s career has included roles at Phillip Lim, Balmain, and Dries Van Noten before founding Sies Marjan in 2016. A recipient of the CFDA Emerging Designer of the Year award, Lak continues to refine his poetic use of color and subversion of material with Sanderlak, a brand that, with Year 01, moves from the brightness of day into the charged ambiguity of night.
Check out the collection below:
CREDITS
Sanderlak – YEAR 01: Los Angeles Collection II
Photographer: Kacper Kasprzyk
Casting: Anita Bitton / The Establishment
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