Area RESORT 2023

If you look through history at people like Yves Saint Laurent, Ungaro, Jean Paul Gaultier, there’s always this idea of going back to a marinier, a rope, an anchor…these symbolic tropes, basically, said Area creative director Piotrek Panszczyk.

We wanted to dissect these ideas and kind of turn them on their head. He chose the mussel (“something quite erotic and not really glamorous”) as his starting point, because it reminded him of hometown. “I [was] raised in Holland, on the Belgium border and that area has a really big mussel-fishing industry...
— Piotrek Panszczyk | Vogue

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