Bianca Saunders Spring Summer 2025 ‘The Hotel’ Collection

Bianca Saunders, recipient of this year's 2024 BFC/GQ Designer Fashion Fund, is proud to invite you to her SS25 collection, "The Hotel'', an exploration of character creation and rediscovery. Crafting archetypes through disruptive tailoring has been a through line in Saunders’ work- take her Pre-Fall 2021 collection where each look was based on a meticulously constructed persona inspired by Hans Eijkelboom’s ‘The Ideal Man’. This season, Saunders was interested in the perspective of the tourist- what they see when they visit a place with fresh eyes and how an idealised scope informs their perception. Acclaimed photojournalist Bradley Smith's photographs of a Jamaican resort in the 1940s and his book 'Escape to the West Indies: A Guidebook to the Islands of the Caribbean' were the evocative inspirations behind the collection. Smith captured the staff's distinct personalities and their sartorial suaveness in a manner that deeply resonated with Saunders. This season, Saunders delves into her devotion to world-building and her practice of expanding the possibilities of menswear. In “The Hotel'', Saunders melds refined opulence with vibrant craftsmanship. Immersed throughout the collection are homages to Saunders’ heritage. A dazzling sequin fleece tracksuit reminiscent of the luminous Jamaican night sky is Saunders’ take on the underexplored concept of men’s day-to-night dressing. A semi-fitted cropped pleated shirt manipulated to appear tucked in pairs with a mid-length skort w