Exploring the fragile tension between strength and collapse, harmony and rupture, intimacy and distance. The collection imagines a world where polarities no longer coexist in balance — they fracture, scatter, and resist each other. From this breakage, a new aesthetic emerges: raw, fractured yet resilient, fragile yet enduring.
The collection draws from the tension between the 70s and 80s, freedom of movement clashing against power and control, and uses that discord as a catalyst. Inspired by the raw urgency of the Futurist Manifesto, Resistant When Opposites Break dissolves boundaries between seasons, silhouettes, and worlds. Minimalism is honed with control; maximalism unleashed as protective strength.
Thirty looks unfold into fifteen transformative statements, each garment both shield and proclamation, both question and answer. This is a manifesto in fabric, a revolution embodied, an insistence that beauty lives where opposites collide.
Contradictions drive Poet-Lab’s latest collection: strength meets fragility, silence encounters voice, structure bends into fluidity. Clothing becomes language. Every garment is a sentence, every silhouette a declaration. Transparency reveals the unspoken; seams punctuate silence. This is fashion as resistance, freedom stitched into form.
The look is raw and unconventional: tailored shoulders dissolve into silk transparencies, strict cuts unravel into organic drapes, unfinished edges reject polish in favour of honesty. Fabrics speak in contrasts: silks for fragility, cotton wools for grounding, sculptural taffeta for shine. Deadstock and recycled textiles return as reimagined “ghost fabrics”, stories of renewal and resilience.
The colour palette narrates dualities in collision. On one side, muted greens, maroons, and earthy neutrals speak in tones of contemplation and restraint. On the other, explosive vibrancy, saturated hues, and luminous transparencies ignite energy and rebellion. The fractures between these worlds hold the spirit of the collection, beauty born from contrast, freedom discovered in rupture.
Marcus Hartelt
Photography & Direction
www.marcushartelt.com
