Emerging Designer Womenswear & Menswear
Dhanish Rafi
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Underground is built from the energy of the city at night. Parking structures, tunnels, industrial streets, where headlights slice through concrete and the air carries fuel, rubber, and metal. That atmosphere, along with the culture around bikes and cars, shapes the collection’s attitude and construction, and it’s tied to street style through the way people dress, move, and carry themselves in these spaces. Rather than using motorsport as graphics, I translate it into silhouette and line through structured shoulders, sculpted torsos, controlled compression, and aerodynamic panel mapping.
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The materials follow the same mindset: familiar street pieces like sneakers and jackets are taken apart and rebuilt so traces of their original function remain, while carbon fiber is introduced through selected details to add strength, texture, and a subtle link to performance engineering. The palette stays direct, with black for depth, red for velocity, and controlled accents drawn from racing markings. Underground captures street culture with a fierce, deliberate presence, shaped by speed, style, and the machines that influence it.
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