Nanushka Spring 2021 Ready-to-Wear

Sandra Sandor quarantined in the Hungarian countryside where she renewed her connection with the natural world. “I was really in the middle of nowhere,” she says via Zoom. “ I was so shocked that I felt so different in the middle of nature than in the city. And then it made me think what does nature do to me, that makes me feel so different? I felt that it has this kind of transformative power or this kind of balancing power.” The designer mined this enriching experience for resort, and evolved the concept for spring, moving, as she indicated in her show notes from “a pause, a moment of contemplation,” toward active engagement with the world. She went about doing this by using many natural materials and incorporating a lot of handicraft into the collection, while maintaining her price points. As a result, there is a lot of macramé, used winningly as sleeves on a button-front shirtdress with a bra top, and on a fringed boho vest closed with a ceramic shell, another seasonal motif.