If there’s one way to get our attention, it’s colourful matrix-coded garms and anything oversized, so when Helen Anthony’s 114-piece collection made its way down the runway at London Fashion Week (despite it being the longest show we’ve ever sat through), the latex bralettes, leather trench coats and fluffy fits had the Broke crew wiping a trail of drool from our chins by the time it was done.
We’re not usually one for tailoring, but if it’s androgynous, we can get behind it, and, after stalking Helen Anthony’s SS24 show on socials last season (who else remembers the mini skirts?), we were gagging to see what their AW24 collection was saying.
After years of ‘traditional’ brands rolling out the same designs season after season with a pocket change here or a button added there, we’d pretty much sacked off the whole aesthetic in search of something more avant-garde, so when Naeems choice of bold reds, yellows, blues and greens took the brand’s AW24 garms from stereotypical to spicy, we gave each other a lil side eye, he’d made corpcore cool again.
Toning down the femininity of fits using ties whilst simultaniously freeing the nipple added a genderless angle to the collection, with latex sets, fishnets and sunnies bringing a touch of Berlin to the brand. Finally we have to big up the faux fur dresses with built in bodices for taking ‘fancy’ from stuffy to sound af.
Instead of cheering Chanel for releasing generic garms, Burberry for dropping another beige trench or licking Saint Lauren’s arse over satin trousers being sent down a runway for the fifth season in a row, lets give brands like Helen Anthony the attention they deserve. Browse the rest of the looks we’re down bad for this season below…
