SIRAPOP Dresses

Dresses are where the label's structure-versus-softness idea is easiest to see, silhouettes that hold their shape without going stiff. It is the kind of technical shaping that tends to come out of a design education focused on pattern-making rather than styling alone.

The same sculptural instinct scaled down to separates, built to hold a defined shape on the body rather than drape loosely. It keeps the pieces feeling considered even in a simpler category.

Bottoms extend the label's structured vocabulary into tailoring, rounding out a wardrobe that clearly wants to be worn as a full look rather than piece by piece. Less flashy than the dresses, but consistent with the same design hand.

The rest of what SIRAPOP is currently shipping, still working the same push and pull between soft material and firm shape that has defined the label since its Parsons-graduate founders started it in 2017.

This is still a young, independently run label without a long press history, which makes it hard to say where it goes next, but the design point of view, structure built out of unlikely materials, is more specific than a lot of what gets called emerging right now. I love SIRAPOP’s sculptural approach, and I’d follow it into dresses and trousers for more ways to play with proportion.

For more in the same spirit, take a look at Unique Cocktail Dresses and Altuzarra Dresses and Tailoring.