Casely-Hayford impressed crowds as they sent their Spring / Summer 2015 collection down the runway to a rocking Led Zeppelin soundtrack. The father-son duo formed their own take on the art intervention movement, readdressing its significance and meaning through re-appropriation. Since the 00’s the term interventionism has increasingly been used by politically engaged artists to describe their interdisciplinary approach to creating art.
Casely Hayford took classic English menswear shapes that have become integral and looked at ways of dissecting them. The duo managed to move the sartorial into the anarchic, the anarchic into sportswear and sportswear into the formal – to give a modern spin.
Their collection featured pinstriped suits with oversized coats, which played on the uniform of city businessmen, whilst giving a nod to the realm of punk through unconventional silhouettes and asymmetrical zip detail. The Spring / Summer 2015 collection converges both the modern and the nostalgic to demonstrate that modernity does not have to mean rejecting the human touch.
Jordan Hulse