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Fashion Network
5 days ago
- Business
- Fashion Network
Sander Lak to launch namesake label during Paris Fashion Week
Sander Lak, the founder and creative director of the former cult-favourite label Sies Marjan, is making a return to the fashion industry with the debut of his namesake brand, Sanderlak. With a vision shaped by Lak's global upbringing and his ongoing exploration of identity and place, Sanderlak aims to introduce a fresh perspective to the world of luxury fashion. Each year, the brand will draw inspiration from a specific location, serving as a conceptual anchor for its collections. These chosen places will influence the themes, palette, textures, and mood of the designs. Though grounded in menswear, the collections are designed to transcend gender, offering an inclusive approach to luxury clothing. For Lak, this new chapter builds on a career that began with studies at ArtEZ in Arnhem and a Master's degree in menswear from Central Saint Martins in London. His professional journey has included roles at 3.1 Phillip Lim in New York, Balmain in Paris, and a five-year tenure at Dries Van Noten in Antwerp. In 2016, Lak launched Sies Marjan in New York, a label named after his parents. The brand earned Lak the CFDA Emerging Designer of the Year award in 2018, along with multiple industry nominations, before closing its doors in 2020 due to the economic impact of Covid-19. His debut namesake collection will be unveiled in Paris through private appointments.
Fashion Network
5 days ago
- Business
- Fashion Network
Sander Lak to launch namesake label during Paris Fashion Week
Sander Lak, the founder and creative director of the former cult-favourite label , is making a return to the fashion industry with the debut of his namesake brand, Sanderlak. With a vision shaped by Lak's global upbringing and his ongoing exploration of identity and place, Sanderlak aims to introduce a fresh perspective to the world of luxury fashion. Each year, the brand will draw inspiration from a specific location, serving as a conceptual anchor for its collections. These chosen places will influence the themes, palette, textures, and mood of the designs. Though grounded in menswear, the collections are designed to transcend gender, offering an inclusive approach to luxury clothing. For Lak, this new chapter builds on a career that began with studies at ArtEZ in Arnhem and a Master's degree in menswear from Central Saint Martins in London. His professional journey has included roles at 3.1 Phillip Lim in New York, Balmain in Paris, and a five-year tenure at Dries Van Noten in Antwerp. In 2016, Lak launched Sies Marjan in New York, a label named after his parents. The brand earned Lak the CFDA Emerging Designer of the Year award in 2018, along with multiple industry nominations, before closing its doors in 2020 due to the economic impact of Covid-19. His debut namesake collection will be unveiled in Paris through private appointments.
Fashion Network
5 days ago
- Business
- Fashion Network
Sander Lak to launch namesake label during Paris Fashion Week
Sander Lak, the founder and creative director of the former cult-favourite label Sies Marjan, is making a return to the fashion industry with the debut of his namesake brand, Sanderlak. With a vision shaped by Lak's global upbringing and his ongoing exploration of identity and place, Sanderlak aims to introduce a fresh perspective to the world of luxury fashion. Each year, the brand will draw inspiration from a specific location, serving as a conceptual anchor for its collections. These chosen places will influence the themes, palette, textures, and mood of the designs. Though grounded in menswear, the collections are designed to transcend gender, offering an inclusive approach to luxury clothing. For Lak, this new chapter builds on a career that began with studies at ArtEZ in Arnhem and a Master's degree in menswear from Central Saint Martins in London. His professional journey has included roles at 3.1 Phillip Lim in New York, Balmain in Paris, and a five-year tenure at Dries Van Noten in Antwerp. In 2016, Lak launched Sies Marjan in New York, a label named after his parents. The brand earned Lak the CFDA Emerging Designer of the Year award in 2018, along with multiple industry nominations, before closing its doors in 2020 due to the economic impact of Covid-19. His debut namesake collection will be unveiled in Paris through private appointments.
Hypebeast
6 days ago
- Business
- Hypebeast
Former Sies Marjan Designer Sander Lak Is Launching a Namesake Menswear Brand
Sander Lak, the brain behind the beloved and now-closed New York labelSies Marjan, is returning to the fashion circle with the launch of his own namesake brand. Stylized as Sanderlak, the imprint is set to debut during Paris Fashion Week Men's later this month. Lak, who boasts a Master's degree in menswear from Central Saint Martins, spent five formative years designing both men's and womenswear at Dries Van Noten, before launching Sies Marjan in 2016. Despite backing from billionaire husband and wife Nancy and Howard Marks, a CFDA Emerging Designer of the Year trophy, and prime placement on the likes of Barneys New York's shelves, the label was forced toclose its doorsin 2020 due to the financial impact of the COVID crisis. Sanderlak, funded in part by angel investors, will see Lak design menswear-inspired collections shaped by his own global upbringing (he grew up between Malaysia, Gabon, Scotland, and the Netherlands) and his 'ongoing exploration of identity and place.' Each collection will center around a specific location, which will inform the line's themes, colors, fabrics, and demeanor. Sanderlak will release two main collections each year. The brand will debut its first line in Paris through private appointments next month.
Vogue
6 days ago
- Business
- Vogue
Sander Lak Is Back! The Sies Marjan Designer Will Debut an Eponymous Collection in Paris
Lak spent years laying low, focused on projects outside of fashion, including a graphic novel and screenplay. He counts himself a true movie buff, with favorites like Eugene Kotlyarenko's The Code, Juho Kuosmanen's Compartment Number 6, and Woody Allen's Match Point, but he couldn't quite turn the page completely. After publishing a book of his Sies Marjan work with Rizzoli in 2023, he started developing his new brand. Sanderlak, as he's named it, is a conceptual label rooted in what Lak describes as his nomadic childhood. 'My upbringing was extremely transient,' he says, 'I lived all over the world, and applying that same way of thinking to creating makes a lot of sense to me.' The result will be at least two, possibly more, collections a year of 'really wearable clothes—shirts, pants, jackets, coats, a little bit of tailoring,' that are all inspired by a specific place—it could be a city, it could be an entire country—of Lak's choosing. 'The original idea was to do a company without any real, actual roots, but the logistics of that were impossible,' he laughs. 'What I will be doing is looking at what the textures are, what the colors are of a place, and that will be shaping what the clothes will be.' The concept goes beyond local inspirations; he's set himself some ground rules, which include sourcing material and vintage garments only from the location of his focus, organizing collaborations and capsule collections with companies native to that place, and booking local photographers and models for shoots. 'Creativity happens from limitation. I've worked for amazing people and I've had freedom, but you can get a little bit lazy with the idea that anything is possible. I like the idea of parameters. I feel the work comes out in really surprising ways because I keep pushing myself.' Sies Marjan, fall 2016 ready-to-wear Photo: Courtesy of Sies Marjan Sies Marjan, spring 2018 ready-to-wear Photo: Luca Tombolini / Sies Marjan, fall 2018 ready-to-wear Photo: Marcus Tondo / Sies Marjan, spring 2019 ready-to-wear Photo: Yannis Vlamos / Sies Marjan, spring 2020 ready-to-wear Photo: Filippo Fior / Sies Marjan, fall 2020 ready-to-wear Photo: Courtesy of Sies Marjan Backed by angel investors, Lak has declined to share the region he's leaning into for launch, preferring to save that information for his Paris debut, but one thing is for certain: he won't be moving on every season. He'll 'stay' a year in a place, maybe more. 'I like the idea of continuing a conversation, instead of talking about Picasso one day and, I don't know, Greece the next. I find that really disconnected. I like it when an artist works on something and perfects it and goes deeper into it, and then maybe goes elsewhere. This exploration, this deeper search for things, is something I was really hungry for.'
