The East London-born, Cape Town-based designer is eccentric. His designs are too. In fact, his eponymous label was created around eccentricity. The Fashion & design graduate is making waves with his stunning minimalist designs and equally breathtaking look books. While completing his fashion design degree at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Lukhanyo Mdingi created two collections. The first was the Granite Collection – a contrasting range based on hard, soft, matte and sheen elements that balance ready-to-wear with avant-garde pieces. The second collection, Basics, focuses on clean minimal looks that are strong and distinct, using fabrics that enhance and expose the female form.
For Spring/Summer 2016, the young designer turns entirely to the color blue. According to Fucking Young!, Taintless, which Mdingi unveiled a few weeks back at SAMW in Cape Town, is based on Oriental aesthetics that he uses to blur the line between mens and womenswear. “Instead of pertaining created pieces to one distinct gender, the aim was to create a collection that is for all individuals,” the publication says. Launching yesterday on Fucking Young!, the Taintless lookbook sees models Toyin Oneyene (Ice Genetics) and Gandhi Mukiza (Wicked Talent) photographed by Travys Owen and styled by Gabrielle Kannemeyer. See a few shots from the series below, and head herefor the full lookbook. Keep up with Lukhanyo Mdingi on Twitter, Instagram, and Behance.
See the look book
Lukhanyo Mdingi’s Spring/Summer 2016 Lookbook
Photographer: Travys Owen
Art Director: Gabrielle Kannemeyer
MUA: Amori Birch
Assistants: Miguel Brown and Jasleen Matharu
Source: OkayAfrica/ Design Indaba
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