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Forbes
23-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
David Koma's SS26 menswear show was one of the most talked about collections at Berlin Fashion Week
DAVID KOMA'S Runway Show Berlin Fashion Week SS26 by Reference Studios at Palais am FunkturmDavid Koma's Spring/Summer 2026 menswear show was never going to be quiet, but by choosing Berlin he nodded to the direction his menswear brand David Koma will take — full of verve and packed with subcultural references. At Berlin Fashion Week Koma took over Bruno Grimmek and Werner Düttmann's 1957 Palais am Funkturm for the Intervention initiative run by buzzy PR agency Reference Studios, an invite scheme for designers backed by funding from the German Fashion Council. His collection I Love David was a sharp blend of ego, irony, and iconography. England player David Beckham on his mobile phone at the launch of the Adidas 'I kiss Football' ... More campaign at adidas HQ in Stockport on March 15, 2001 . (Photo Gary M Prior/Allsport/Getty Images)For Koma, at the helm of Blumarine as creative director and known for bringing body-conscious evening wear into mid-2000s culture, his Berlin debut linked his love for Y2K that run through his throwback designs at Blumarine with a playful riff on the concept of David, from Beckham to the designer himself. The Intervention program gave Koma the opportunity to be eccentric with the concept of a muse. His collection zoned in on three Davids—David Beckham, Michelangelo's David, and David Koma. Beckham brought back classic 1990s headline moments— low-slung jeans, crystal-trimmed tanks, and a tongue-in-cheek rhinestone tee nodding to the footballer's iconic 'I Kiss Football' moment. Michelangelo's David counterbalanced this with draped marble-like tops, lace aprons rendered in crochet, and souvenir-shop camp reimagined as high fashion while Koma's own trademarks of tailoring, sculptural flourishes and sex appeal anchored the collection. Here he talks to Grace Banks about building a namesake brand that's both personal and commercial, the return of sex to the runway and maintaining a decades-long career in a rapidly evolving industry. DAVID KOMA Runway Show Berlin Fashion Week SS26 by Reference Studios at Palais am Funkturm, Berlin You're only a couple of seasons into you new menswear line, how does it feel like to show your spring 2026 collection in Berlin? You know, I consider myself both the customer and a creator of I Love David. I've never approached collections with that perspective before and it feels personal again. Showing in Berlin, a city I respect on so many levels, makes that choice even more personal. One of the most important things for me is that I would enjoy the moment, because very often things that I do, they're amazing, but I need to wait a day or two or a week just to kind of digest it all. I told myself I would enjoy the moment more this do you enjoy the moment? I've really tried to be present in every single part of the experience and not just the show, from sourcing material to the model castings. During the show, and even now talking to you, I really feel calm, happy and relaxed. So I do enjoy centered the collection on three Davids—including yourself! I'm a huge fan of David Beckham and his iconic style throughout so many decades. So I always had him on the mood board, and the more time passed it became clear how symbolic the name David is for me. My favorite sculpture is Michaelangelo's David. And then there's me, I'm in good did you work those very different David personas into a coherent collection? The draping, broaches and tailoring mixe the classical with contemporary. Then there is this whole kind of paparazzi era with the diamanté and the jeans. The models were wearing my glasses, that unified the whole look. Then there's a few signatures of this collection— the garter detail that we had over the couple of trousers. I wanted to add these spikes of sex and glamour so there are flower broaches inspired by KOMA Runway Show Berlin Fashion Week SS26 by Reference Studios at Palais am Funkturm, Berlin The lace apron is a reference to those aprons you get in Florence with Michelangelo's David on, but you wanted to elevate the materials. What was that process like? Yes it started with that, you know the lacy tourist aprons you get all over Florence. But I applied this really elevated technique, which is like a silk crochet by hand. It's very couture, but still staying true to the touristy souvenirs from Florence. So I thought, have a sense of humour—keep the basic shape but make the texture there similarities between the David Koma woman and man? The man is more edgy, like the guys in Berlin. The woman is glamourous—glamorous women love to date grungy guys so it works!You launched your namesake label in 2009 and joined Blumarine as creative director in 2024, one of the buzziest brands on the market now. How have you stayed so nimble and made sure your creative vision was in the market over the years? You need to obsessed you really do. Access and opportunity are key too. Obsession really is essential. With what, trust me, you'll be successful.
Fashion United
30-06-2025
- Business
- Fashion United
Joor introduces 'Ready-to-Ship Style' for in-season buying and tariff mitigation
In a strategic move to align with the rapid demands of contemporary retail, fashion tech innovator Joor has unveiled "Ready-To-Ship Style," a new digital trade show. Launched today on Joor's virtual marketplace, Passport, this event aims to connect retailers with immediate inventory from 145 premium brands, including Blumarine, Farm Rio, and C.P. Company. This initiative directly addresses the evolving retail landscape, characterized by shorter lead times and more agile buying patterns. Joor's proprietary data highlights a significant shift: the average time from wholesale order to shipment has dramatically decreased from 253 days in 2019 to just 86 days in 2024, underscoring a fundamental change in how buyers plan their assortments. The company seeks to alleviate industry pressures related to agility, inventory risk, and anticipated global tariffs. Amanda McCormick Bacal, Senior Vice President of Marketing at Joor, stated in a press release, 'In today's retail environment, brands are seeking efficient ways to offload existing inventory while retailers need the flexibility to make data-driven buying decisions closer to delivery windows. Our Ready-To-Ship Style event delivers on both fronts.' Another significant driver behind this launch is the increasing importance of "evergreen" products—classic, seasonless styles consistently in demand. These items constituted 47 percent of Joor's gross merchandise value (GMV) in 2024, a notable rise from 37 percent in 2019, indicating a clear trend towards reliability and commercial consistency. Furthermore, the platform is proactively responding to expected price increases stemming from new global trade tariffs. A recent Joor survey revealed that 85 percent of brands anticipate raising prices soon, prompting buyers to secure inventory before costs escalate. Eight week digital event The eight-week digital event, hosted on Joor Passport—the company's virtual venue for digital showrooms and fashion week experiences—offers buyers a curated selection of bestsellers, carryover styles, and new in-stock merchandise. The event concludes on August 18, 2025. Since its inception, Joor Passport has facilitated over 100 events, attracting more than 475,000 retail visitors from 174 countries. Founded in New York, Joor is recognized as the fashion industry's premier B2B wholesale platform, processing nearly 20 billion dollars in annual transactions. Its extensive client base includes luxury powerhouses such as LVMH, Richemont, and Capri, alongside partnerships with prominent retailers like Harrods, Selfridges, and Dover Street Market. With "Ready-To-Ship Style," JOOR solidifies its position not merely as a transactional platform but as a vital strategic tool for navigating the intricate intersection of fashion, logistics, and global economics.
Vogue
27-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Vogue
David Koma Resort 2026 Collection
David Koma had just returned from Stromboli, where he'd been on set shooting a Blumarine lookbook, when it was time to present his own resort collection in London. Lace, pearls, and sugar-rush pastels—signatures more closely linked to Blumarine than to the graphic, femme-fatale-coded vision of his namesake womenswear—cooed from the rails of his Shoreditch studio. The influence was fun to speculate on, but Koma was sure to dismiss any direct comparisons between his respective brands. 'I always swing between extremes,' he explained. 'Last season was tough, whereas this time, I wanted to see how soft I could take it while still making the clothes feel strong and empowering to women. I wanted to use femininity as a sort of weapon.' Koma set forth on his mission with a rewatch of the hit series Mad Men—the 1960s remain his favorite decade in fashion—and found inspiration in its glamorous female leads, who, beneath their sweet floral-print dresses, were often more hardcore, and hardened, than their male counterparts. He sought to channel that tension into clothes where flowers became a kind of battledress: chrome stems clutching bikini bottoms and tracing babydoll dress cutouts; three-dimensional silk roses puncturing nude-illusion inserts on draped and deconstructed satin gowns. Elsewhere, circles of studded denim and bonded lace were hand-appliquéd across bralettes, pant sets, and boudoir-ish minidresses to form barbed clusters. The designer's notes might well have read: 'You can look, but you can't touch.' It would, of course, be a struggle to imagine Betty Draper and her peers in looks as revealing as these, but fashion is in a different place now. For example: Koma transformed the notion of tweed two-pieces into sequin-scattered cocktail dresses, and twinsets and pearls into pearl-encrusted hotpants in buttercup yellows and powdery lilacs. This lighter-than-usual palette was informed by the American pop artist Mel Ramos, whose 2014 lithograph Maidenform Molly—in which a striped figure is depicted with an absent square at her bust—influenced this season's hazard-tape leather skirts and T-shirt dresses with stark holes in the torso that, in Koma's words, 'mimicked a television.' The designer has spent a lot of time replaying the past, but his next task will be to consider his own: he's spent 15 years in the business, and should celebrate the milestone away from a screen—that includes a viewfinder in Stromboli.
Vogue
16-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Vogue
Blumarine Resort 2026 Collection
David Koma is easing just fine into the Milanese work hard/weekend harder lifestyle that the city's proximity to beaches, lakes, and mountains has turned into a sort of competitive sport. By Friday, Milan is a ghost town , and the fashion playbook flips accordingly: suits off, swimwear on. 'Italians have this great on-the-go style, a mindset that seamlessly switches from on-duty to off-duty chic,' he noted on a Zoom call from his studio in rainy London. No wonder he waxed nostalgic about his trip to Stromboli, where the Blumarine resort lookbook was shot. Koma is casting Blumarine in a 'dark romantic' light, a far cry from its frilly, flirty past. After dabbling in the mood for fall, he doubled down here, channeling the sultry spirit of Helmut Newton's '90s campaigns for the brand—more femme fatale than frivolous ingénue. 'I wanted to add a refined eroticism and emotional maturity to the Blumarine woman,' he said. With the volcanic black sands and jagged rocks of Stromboli as backdrop, the drama was dialed up, giving the 'boardroom-to-beach' collection a high-voltage charge. Known for his affinity for structure, Koma introduced some sharp tailoring into this summer's remix, even crafting blazers in white terry cloth, that were paired with sarong-style skirts—easily unwrapped to reveal a bikini the moment a Friday business meeting gives way to a poolside situation. Zebra print emerged as the animalier motif of choice, rendered in bold black and white on crinkled chiffon minidresses for maximum graphic impact. The brand's rose motif was swapped for the fierce agave flower, a resilient native of Stromboli; the signature girly BluVi cardigan turned up in a sheer nude yarn with a feather-trimmed collar, while flesh-toned stretch lace clung to body-hugging tube dresses and second-skin tops, playing with notions of exposure and 'the illusion of nudity.' Once you've left the boardroom and the spreadsheets behind, why settle for the expected terry-cloth robe? Instead, wrap yourself in an extravagant white sheepskin fur, treated with the glamour of vintage fox. 'I do love using fur, even in summertime,' said Koma. 'It's so modern and dramatic—it's my idea of luxury.' Against the dark volcanic rocks of Stromboli, it would make for a striking contrast. The island's magnetic pull has clearly cast its spell on him.
Yahoo
27-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Irina Shayk opens Blumarine show in Milan injecting buzz into creative director David Koma's debut
MILAN (AP) — Top model Irina Shayk injected buzz into Georgian designer David Koma's debut as Blumarine's creative director, opening the Fall-Winter 2025-26 preview show during Milan Fashion Week on Thursday in a mood-setting, sharply executed, shearling-trimmed coat. For her second turn, Shayk wore a slinky sheer dress with a deep slit under a matching Navy blue shearling fur. In two looks, she encompassed both the modern, structural tailoring that Kona is best known for, and Blumarine's romantic feminism. Kona called the tension between the two fashion poles 'dark romanticism.' See for yourself — The Yodel is the go-to source for daily news, entertainment and feel-good stories. By signing up, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Policy. 'The idea of dark romanticism really felt correct for this time that we are living,'' Koma said backstage. In that vein, the collection's main motif, the thistle, represents the duality of 'protective, but fragile; delicate, but aggressive,'' Koma said. It is seen as a crystal applique on jeans, and as silver baubles that rustle on garments. The structured garments contrasted with romantic looks in organza, chiffon and Georgette, set off by modern corsets, silver hardware and panties with the Blumarine logo written in crystals. Koma said his dark romanticism comes 'with a beautiful, happy ending,'' Koma said. 'Because with Blumarine, the femininity, the beauty, the happiness, it's in the core of the brand.''
