For his label’s SS25 show, Kiko Kostadinov found unexpected inspiration in health institutions, namely the hospitals, clinics and laboratories we encounter through our lives. According to show notes, they are “places that provoke fear in many, yet where the past and future collide in moments of great beauty.” Referring to them as “theatres of birth and death” the designer went on to add that “these sanctuaries require both intimacy with and protection from the body.”
Photography Jamie-Maree Shipton