While clothing brand Diesel might be known as a "denim" brand, newly-crowned Creative Director Glenn Martens (who is still heading up Y/Project previously
here, where he twists and folds excess fabric into voluminous slouchy puffy silhouettes) decided to take the humble and ubiquitous material beyond its traditional bounds. What results are some pretty amazing creations. This Fall-Winter '22-'23 collection at Milan Fashion Week starts off innocently enough with some ripped jeans on a model in a beautiful sheer top, but quickly morphs into denim bonded with neoprene for a cool, glossy look. From there, the rest of the collection is an exploration of experimental pieces crossed with the sense of classic denim: avant garde
and street-wise at the same time. The most amazing pieces in this collection are the "fur" coats: no actual fur, just the cut, frayed, and fluffed edges of denim. Awesome. Also of note are the pretty cool cross-body bags imprinted with the Diesel logo "D" that look like gas tanks from a motorcycle (in black in Look #5 and in silver in Look #9).
Martens is very dedicated to the sustainable and ethical fabrication movement in the fashion industry and he is not just paying lip service. Here he has used off cuts of denim as well as upcycled, layered, bonded, distressed dead stock jersey from Diesel tee shirts to create some of the tops and wide-legged pants that seem to be made of hide. Proof that sustainability and using leftovers can be beautiful. "We want to make more handcrafted pieces and make them locally, out of whatever we have at the factory," Martens said. And that is admirable.
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