Since graduating from Central Saint Martin’s in 2018, Dom Sebastian has been making waves in the fashion world through his tactical fusion of Textile and Graphic Design. Berlin-based photographer Peter E. Reiche shares his experience and collection of photos after witnessing the psychedelic sensation’s London Fashion Week SS20 show at the Strand.
Being sucked into Dom Sebastian’s presentation for LFW SS20 did something to my mind comparable to a funky therapy sesssion. Not just because of the trippy textile designs dancing before my eyes but by the presentation’s calm and hypnotising performance, like being pulled behind the mirror by a drugged caterpillar into Alice’s Wonderland of childhood memories.
It brought up memories of never-ending Sunday afternoons, visiting doting aunties in a surrounding that forces your mind to escape on psychedelic trips for keeping your young brain healthy. All the teapots, flower vases and pill boxes become gigantic as you wander between them on the tablecloth, becoming high on vitamin tabs that you resolve in milky glasses of water to watch the bubbles rise, just to watch activity, counting the dancing colours of broken light.
You are the hero in a story where your only job is to become one with the environment. One with the patterns. The feeling switches between being upset and in the deepest relaxation. And early in life, you recognise that sometimes you are just a screen for life’s projections.
That was what Dom Sebastian’s creations did to me. Wow, that’s more than you would expect from a regular fashion show!
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Peter E. Reiche
