Walter Van Beirendonck surprises once again his public with an eccentrically astonishing and fun collection: "Banana Wink Boom!".
Fashion is a game for Belgian designer Walter Van Beirendonck, who pushed his fantasy to further boundaries for his latest collection presented at the Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week. This is how Walter Van Beirendonck describes his creative process.
About Banana Wink Boom!, A/W 2024/25 Collection: The Concept
"My process creating this brand-new collection was different. Weirder.
I played a Frankesteinian art game with my own mind. "Cadavre Exquis" is also known as a collage of consequences. Where tops & bottoms are playing telephone.
Fittingly clashing.
I found new holes and loops and hooked up tubes to the deeply Belgian DNA of surrealism, tapping into an absurdist way of designing."
"Banana Wink Boom!" means everything and nothing at all. I felt enormous freedom in zapping these beautiful monsters to life."
About The Collection: Sartorial Touches
"All the clothes from the collection are brand-new but, to underline this random way of creating, I went back to some of the styling and make-up I did 30 years ago for the W.&L.T. shows using hairs by Stephen Jones and accessories from my archive".
"Like David Bowie, I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.
As I pieced all these fragments together, I saw nothing but beauty."
The accessories, hair and make-up used in Banana Wink Boom! come from the designer's archival collection:
S/S 1995 Over The Rainbow
A/W 1995/96 Paradise Pleasure Productions
S/S 1996 Killer / Astral Travel / 4D Hi-D
A/W 1996/97 Wonderland
S/S 1997 Welcome Little Stranger
A/W 1997/98 Avatar
S/S 1998 A Fetish For Beauty
A/W 1998/99 Believe
"I invite you to experience more freedom/less automation.
Ready yourself for a new era of fetishism.
Plug yourself into this pleasure portal, please.
Just reach into my tunnels."
Experience immense, new freedom with Walter Van Beirendonck online.
Credits:
All hats realised by Stephen Jones
Make-up by Jenneke Croubels & team
Hair by Charlie Le Mindu & team
Show production by Mark Vandebroeck
Thanks to:
Dorrith, Eiko, Federico, Francisco, Loïc, Marlous, Oscar, Sara, and Susan
