COLLECTION
The inspiration for the Wana Sambo‘Sidewalks are Runways’Cruise Collection ’10 was drawn from the streets. On the sidewalks, you see every form of creativity, style and persona expressed through people’s dressing. This collection can be taken straight from the lookbook into a woman’s closet because it has a piece for every occasion. Work, play, boat cruise, chilling-at-friend’s, out to dinner, or just hanging out. I wanted to show the versatility of a collection with it still telling a story. The relaxed yet sharp/smart silhouettes used in this collection would work very well for a lot of women and their various body types, making these women daring and captivating.
The 70’s/80’s inspired most of this collection. I focused on reinventing classics, in cool, lucid, and twisted ways, at the same time, ensuring the pieces are all urban-cool. The ra-ra skirts, the blazers, the shorts, the loose fitting blousons, shoulder-pads, which make the woman’s shoulder broader, are all statements of power dressing; what you see on the street daily. The Skirts are demure while the dresses’ cuts and shapes are subtly cut to fit.
