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Fashion Network
6 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
6 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.
Vogue
03-06-2025
- 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.'
Business of Fashion
03-06-2025
- Business
- Business of Fashion
Sies Marjan Designer Sander Lak to Launch Menswear Label
Sander Lak, the Central Saint Martins-trained designer behind now-defunct New York label Sies Marjan, will debut a new luxury menswear brand, Sanderlak, at Paris men's fashion week later this month. Lak, who worked at Dries Van Noten in Antwerp before moving to New York, launched Sies Marjan in 2016 with the backing of billionaire investor Howard Marks and his wife, Nancy Marks, who financed the American couture label Ralph Rucci before Rucci's exit in 2014. 'Opportunities like these don't happen anymore,' Lak told The Business of Fashion in 2016. 'It used to happen in the '90s, maybe, but not anymore.' Sanderlak logo. (Sanderlak) Against the odds, Sies Marjan, best known for Lak's poetic use of colour, was picked up by Barneys New York after a buzzy debut attended by Anna Wintour, Natalie Massenet and Stefano Tonchi. In 2018, Lak was awarded the CFDA's Emerging Designer of the Year award. But the 2019 closure of Barneys hit the business hard, as did the pandemic, and Sies Marjan shuttered in June 2020. Lak's new menswear venture, partially funded by angel investors, is targeting a category that's less saturated than women's ready-to-wear and, following the pandemic, saw growth that outpaced the industry overall. But the label is launching at a challenging time for emerging labels amid a sharp downturn in demand for luxury goods. Sanderlak will be presented in Paris through private appointments. The brand, currently based in New York, will consist of two main collections a year.
