As predictions and rumors fly around about who is going to next take on the role of James Bond, David Koma has decided to add his two cents.
He thinks the next 007 agent should be a woman and for pre-fall 2025, he played on that fantasy.
Koma’s dream casting would be a combination of three Bond girls in one with the softness of Jill St. John as Tiffany Case in “Diamonds Are Forever,” the sex appeal of Famke Janssen as Xenia Onatopp in “GoldenEye,” and the strong will of Grace Jones as May Day in “A View to a Kill.”
In typical Koma fashion, he designed clothes only for the brave and statuesque: angular dresses with sharp ends; denim bodices with a faux fur trim; leather pencil skirts, and a croc-effect leather short skirt that emulated the shape of a spaceship.
If the predominantly black and red collection had injected shades of purple or pink, it would’ve made a perfect wardrobe for Jane Jetson’s outer space costumes.
“A pre-fall collection has a lot of focus on the sales and wearability; it was even more exciting to play with extremes, push the lines and push the qualities of the materials to play with this idea of avant-garde versus daywear,” said Koma in a preview interview.
The denim and faux fur pieces added much variety and a side of nonchalance glamour that the Georgian-born designer hasn’t tapped into yet — one reason may be because he’s been working on finding the right faux fur that looks and feels real.
Koma may have finally found a way to make faux fur desirable and the top item on the shopping lists of women who own real fur.
