Leandro Cano Spain Fall 2024 Assortment

Ten years then making his runway debut, Leandro Cano returned to his origins. For his fall 2024 proposal, titled Menú, the fashion designer went again to the similar moodboard he had made for his first assortment. “In Buffet, my first collection, there was a little bit of everything,” he stated on the automobile terrain in Madrid’s town heart the place the display was once held. “For fall, I have been streamlining and distilling the designs—it still shares some of the same colors, shapes, and concepts as that first collection, but now everything is more mature and with a more international point of view.”

The Jaén-born fashion designer likes taking a look at historic figures to reinterpret them thru his personal off-kilter lens; to wit, a toile de jouy print options the Spanish king Philip II and his spouse Mary Tudor, driving a motorbike and striking out at a fuel station, respectively. “I wanted to break up with the bucolic origins of the print and give it a much harder touch,” he defined. The print additionally includes a nod to his grandfather, who was once a cab driving force, and his Seat 1500. “In that car, I dreamt a thousand times about what I would do for a living in the future.”

Cano additionally returned to the endmost volumes of his beginnings, updating them thru a unused circumstance. “We have always made them round and organic, and this time we went for a geometric quality. They are more architectural,” he stated. He additionally took the chance to discover dim, a silhoutte he hadn’t impaired till now. “I have a rather love-hate relationship with black, but now I feel very comfortable wearing it,” he mirrored. Key materials incorporated nappa leathers, threads, and jacquards. True to his manner of conceiving style, Cano proposed ways corresponding to macramé or crochet, with a knitting trend he discovered on a pillow that belonged to his grandmother, forgotten for years in a drawer.