Nanushka Fall 2024 Ready-to-Wear

For fall, Nanushka’s Sandra Sándor went back to memory lane to her teenage years growing up in Hungary. Before the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, crossing borders was forbidden; fashion was anathema. Sándor and her family traveled extensively within the country, so her sense of fashion was initially shaped by the utilitarian folklore of local rural communities’ traditional costumes. It was only later that she came across fashion magazines from the US :“It was a revelation,” she said. “It opened up an entirely new world. I was in love.” The co-ed collection was about layers of personal memories: “I wanted to look at myself, going at the roots of my style; it’s the ‘90s seen through the eyes of a Hungarian teenager,” said Sándor. She referenced the raw beauty of the shepherds’ coats made from the curly vellum of racka sheep as well as the midriff-baring tops and the leggy minidresses worn by supermodels in the pages of