“I was thinking about parallels with my own journey. I’m playing the long game, one that takes practice — and repetition,” Grace Wales Bonner said shortly before she presented her collection in the courtyard of the Paris Mint.
took long-distance runners, in particular the Ethiopian marathon champ Haile Gebrselassie, as her inspiration this season. While she may not be winning worldwide marathons, she certainly knows about going the distance in fashion.
“I was thinking about parallels with my own journey. I’m playing the long game, one that takes practice — and repetition,” the designer said shortly before she presented her collection in the courtyard of the Paris Mint.She was Pitti Uomo’s special guest designer last June and, earlier this month, she scooped thefor menswear, which comes with a cash prize of 100,000 pounds, a 12-month business mentoring program, and pro-bono legal services.
She’s earmarked the money to launch leather goods, which will add to her bigger, broader apparel offer, and new footwear, jewelry and accessories collections. For spring, Wales Bonner didn’t miss a beat, drawing on sport, tailoring and artisanal handwork for this elegant coed collection that unfurled to live performances by musicians from Ethiopia, Kenya, the Republic of Niger and West Africa.
Tailoring, which Wales Bonner does in collaboration with London’s Anderson & Sheppard, stole the show.
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