To be backstage at Glenn Martens’ Y/Project show is to enter a perplexingly chic maze of frills, folds and the familiar made fresh again. To be arms length from any one piece from the collection is a bit like experimenting with something more mind-altering than mere fashion. In that sense, one might think tricky tailoring is not a sport to the Belgian-turned-Parisian-hero designer, but instead religion. Spring/Summer 2020 took those seeking a taste of this devoutness under the Pont Alexandre III bridge, where an edgy batch of models led by Sophie Martynova waited to deliver Martens’ message that always calls to mind a tug of war between pleasure-seeking and opulence, in the end ripped in two only to be artfully massaged or stitched back together by the designer. See Models.com’s backstage coverage below.
