Siblings: can’t live with them, can’t live without them. It’s a relationship many of us know too well, a mix of envy/admiration that colours your formative years as life tasks you with finding your voice amongst those that love you most. These bonds are indestructible and lifelong, providing the inspiration for Saul Nash’s SS23 collection as the designer looks to his own familial bonds, blood or otherwise.

Reinterpreting the silhouettes and styles once beloved by his brother into his own movement-focused designs, Nash embarks on a fervent reimagining of once iconic aughties garb, we’re talking stiff Nicholson polo’s, voluminous Avirex jackets, maybe even a Fubu blazer or two, the legacy of which comes infused in his techy-knits and shell-suit Harrington jackets. Towelling baseball jerseys are cut with deep necks and plastered with tactile ‘NASH’ spell-out letters in contrasting baby blues, lined out across the chest besides contours of perforated mesh. The same, thick mesh goes on to comprise loose, sandy track pants and lurid vests in electric blue, while half-toned baby photos decorate jackets and skinny trackpants. 

“I enjoy finding ways to push these sportswear languages forward,” Nash explained of his process before the show, “and this collection has been a great exploration point for that.” In the process of romanticising the favoured fits of his youth, Nash also makes sure to kit out the littluns in the image of his younger self, bestowing them with cycling shorts and athletic track jackets in the same hues of burnt orange that accent his jacket-polo hybrids and their shoulder-blade cut-outs. A once potent presentation of masculinity now lies in something far more fluid, exacted through sport-team camaraderie and varsity style staples for a new generation of rival siblings.