It’s no small feat that Jordan Dalah, a young upstart in Sydney, was given the opening spot at Australia Fashion Week. But when you see Dalah’s cocooning garments that extend and distort the potential of the human silhouette, well, it starts to make sense. His work is singular in 2021 for its ability to project a comfy bow where a bosom could be or turn a hump or bump into a coveted, not embarrassing, protrusion.
As Dalah explained over a Zoom call, he spent the months leading up to his runway debut “finding the strongest silhouettes I could make and then really knocking them out.” His fluted shapes and high, gathered shoulders are positively supersized, cloaking models in quirky stripes, graphic patterns, and soft rose-colored silks. That’s where the surprise element comes in: Underneath some of Dalah’s more dramatic shapes are removable tubular bustles that look something like a pool floatie. When the dresses are deflated, so to speak, they lose their gargantuan propor
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