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Fashion Designer of the Year
Adam Kost
The more we entrench our work is our heart, and the more intimately we engage our personal experience, the more urgently and authentically we can speak out. Adam Kost resolved to leave his comfort zone and, in his SS19 and Sensitivity reset collections, set off to places where he would never go otherwise. He managed to punch above his weight. The two collections serve him to communicate something essential and thorny; something that has already been in the air for long - and, perhaps unwittingly, has touched upon the future of men's fashion. Kost moreover resonates with the topical gender issues asked by fashion designers worldwide. His well-coordinated team provided for a chance to push the author's morphology a step forward, and his skill in the technology of weaving helped him express more than the classical tailoring does. While the SS19 collection still develops on his typical and traditional elements, rather merely innovating silhouette and solving the gender issue more or less stylistically, the Sensitivity reset collection shows the potential where Kost's work may be heading.
Having personally experienced the loss of sensitivity, he maps out the sensitive points on the body and ponders the very essence of touch. All this lead Kost to solutions, which in his work upgrade the silhouette and produce a new form in clothing. The openings in the overgarment, revealing the upper layers, create an interesting landscape of touches or, if you wish, ornaments, and transform the act of dressing into a ritual of self-exploration and self-discovery.
Jan Králíček