A COLD WALL - Fashion-As-Art Presented In Luxury Streetwear For Their AW22 Collection

Leading the way into the AW22 season is the luxury fashion brand - A-COLD-WALL, led by London-based Creative Director Samuel Ross. By sharing his vision, Ross returns to his origins by presenting a fresh take on luxury streetwear. Like previous ACW collections, the new AW22 selection incorporates an eye-catching presentation of twenty-eight awe-inspiring avant-garde looks displaying Ross’ passion for art, fashion and architecture.

With many ideas up Ross' sleeve, he has revisited past ideas like his love for clay modelling into the new selection. As the collection unfolds, we watch the exhibition of models step out of the shadows in a dark warehouse sporting wearable piece that astonish the audience. Sections of sculpturing from Ross' earliest work perfectly executed in the collection, utilising clay modelling and plaster to capture various shapes, forms and styles/techniques.

The collection titled Brittle Render, Sequenced Thought - brings a selection of innovative and artistic craftsmanship to the presentation, cleverly curated with sizeable concepts. It shows the connection between fashion and art as a proposition and at the same time exhibits signs of human reaction, ideas and emotion to the selection.

Perfectly constructed upper body shapes paired with loose-fit baggy trousers, combined with clay to add a hint of flexibility to the essential outerwear and jersey silhouettes. Meanwhile, we see splodges of metallic paint on the clothing like an artist canvas prepared for exhibition. Key highlights of the collection consist of sizeable, grey long, duster coats featuring splashes of specks paired with loose-fitting trousers and ending the look with the ACW X Dr Martens shoes adding a fresh look to the collection.

The AW22 collection brings a variety of colours such as blues, greens, bronze and earthy tones in a selection of t-shirts, hoodies and oversized cargo pants, bringing a luxury streetwear aesthetic look. Basics and separates with distinctive layering took the spotlight view with nylon puffer jackets showing the quality created in the wearable pieces.

In the accessories, you have a sizeable metallic bag thrown across the model figure showing collisions of colour working together, traces of the colour bronze enhancing the trousers, whilst the street styling of the hoodies was hung-off the body, giving the notion of sculpture.

Ross’ love and passion for architecture and rough sartorial silhouettes are well-defined in this collection. Segments of the 1950s unfinished style of Brutalist Architecture did not go unmissed but recognised.

Starting the presentation with a blank dark backdrop, the models appearing on the catwalk reveal innovative techniques in the silhouettes and splashes of colours in an expressive artistic fashion. Multiple looks of street style hoodies, long sleeve t-shirts and trousers with a dash of red combined with ACW x Dr Martens shoes worn with a silver-plated mask.

A-COLD-WALL has impressed the audience once yet again. An introduction to the prospect of new audiences that are open to new and unexpected shapes. Ross has created fresh future concepts, applied with an artistic aesthetic in luxury modern streetwear and fashion in general, combined with high-quality construction focussing on practicality, functionality and exceptional design.

The brand arranged the AW22 collection shot in digital video and look-book format. At the same time, the selection of pieces has achieved a trailblazing performance on the runway, with models captured from multiple angles to seize every inch of creativity within this AW22 collection.

Samuel Ross explains - "Runway will always embody A-COLD-WALL".

Through creative innovation radiating through this collection, ACW persists in harnessing his craft to produce functional wearables by enhancing a fresh unusual look to its sartorial offering and introducing a new modernised artistic perspective to luxury wearable streetwear.

View highlights of the collection below.

Words by Charlene Foreman