When Ladislav Zdut and his team started working on this collection back towards the tail end of 2020’s first wave, they were hopeful. Some of those hopes as evidenced by a long-yoked blue poplin shirt named ‘Biden’ have come to pass. Others, not quite yet.
The lockdowns of then, since, and now have at least, said Zdut, provided: “emptiness for meaningfulness to occur.” Nehera was hardly an excessively or aesthetically profligate brand in the first place, but post-pandemic Zdut has doubled down on the conviction that “luxury should be confined by functionality and comfort. Because excess is not normal any more. And extravagance with no purpose is not normal.”