Subfusco Spring/​Summer ²⁰¹¹⁄₁₂ | Rosemount Australia Fashion Week

Back to the Ele­ments–Derived from the ele­ments of Earth, Air, Fire and Water, Sub­fusco con­tin­ues to explore the essence of human exis­tence. Neu­tral tones of white, gray and pale blue come together with bold dig­i­tal prints cas­caded through­out out a cheeky new col­lec­tion. At large, clean sil­hou­ettes, mod­ern cuts and a strong focus on fab­ri­ca­tions remain to be the preva­lent DNA of designer Joshua Scacheri’s Australian-​​label.

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Subfusco Spring 2011

With a sil­ver bowl-​​cut and stan­dard pose set­ting the mood, Sufusco designer Joshua Scacheri con­tin­ues his explo­ration of the unknown with spring’s col­lec­tion enti­tled Lumi­nous. With a fresh new revamp, clean sil­hou­ettes are melded with futur­is­tic details for a range that pro­vides a dynamic wardrobe of black, gray and white.

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Subfusco Spring 2010 “Collective Species”

Subfusco’s spring 2010 col­lec­tion, “Col­lec­tive Species” marks another riv­et­ing range from down under. Cel­e­brat­ing his ven­ture into wom­enswear, Aus­tralian designer Joshua Scacheri has based his lat­est col­lec­tion off an apoc­a­lyp­tic world where men and women are in fact equal. This world lends itself to a serene vision of feather light gar­ments that work won­der­fully lay­ered. Linens dress the zen col­lec­tion of min­i­mal design, which includes roman­tic hoods, airy dream-​​like cropped pants, wispy tops and waist­coats. Finally, against a color palette of black and white, the col­lec­tion uses char­coal and blue to rep­re­sent re-​​birth and even­tual enlight­en­ment.  Alto­gether, “Col­lec­tive Species” shows tremen­dous growth and matu­rity for Sub­fusco as a  label.  The col­lec­tion is grounded, thought­ful, rel­e­vant and above all accessible.

The col­lec­tion will be avail­able this Sep­tem­ber. Until then…“It’s a post – apoc­a­lyp­tic world rid­dled with tur­moil and destruc­tion, how­ever in the strange and dark dawn­ing of the new age inhab­its the bea­con of light. Designed and hand-​​crafted by their pre­de­ces­sors, the pro­to­type chil­dren were inten­tion­ally pro­duced to regen­er­ate and with­hold human exis­tence on earth. Through their embod­i­ment of a stream­lined, clean and refined image. The pro­to­type twins rep­re­sent the ideal and aspi­ra­tion of their time….”

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Feature Label: Subfusco Spring 2009

Sub­fusco is the vision of designer Joshua Roberto Scacheri mate­ri­al­ized.  Scacheri spent his child­hood in Bris­bane, Aus­tralia, but moved to Italy; his father’s coun­try of ori­gin at the age of six­teen.  It was dur­ing the period in which he lived in Italy that he became aware of a higher sense of fash­ion.  When Scacheri moved to Italy, his first mem­ory was of his aunt not allow­ing him to go club­bing, because of the way he dressed.  “She pulled out a Vogue and flipped through the pages, say­ing, ‘This is how we dress in Italy.  Look how amaz­ing this man looks…’  From that day, [Scacheri] was encap­su­lated by this sense of style and pre­sen­ta­tion.”  This led to net­work­ing and mak­ing friends with footwear design­ers such as Gianni Bara­bato and Paciotti.  Scacheri began work­ing with footwear.  This allowed him to grow an appre­ci­a­tion for the con­struc­tion that goes into fash­ion.  After mov­ing back to Aus­tralia, Scacheri began study­ing fash­ion, tex­tiles, and footwear.  Dur­ing his sec­ond year of school, Scacheri’s pas­sions led to the launch of his line Sub­fusco.

Scacheri cur­rently resides in his home town of Bris­bane Aus­tralia; the third largest city in Aus­tralia.  “Bris­bane is a laid back, pretty city, which is grow­ing rapidly. Being a smaller city, Bris­bane has always had a name tag of ‘The Coun­try Town’” when com­pared to Aus­tralian cities like Syd­ney and Mel­bourne.  How­ever, Scacheri feels that Bris­bane is rich with cre­ativ­ity. They “just don’t have the pop­u­la­tion” that would sup­port max­i­mum expo­sure.”  Scacheri’s design­ers are heav­ily influ­enced by his envi­ron­ment.  Because of Brisbane’s sunny weather, Sub­fusco has “a lot of colour and light weight fab­rics. The line is also influ­enced by the Bris­bane “sub-​​culture, which is influ­enced by the beach and sun.”  Scacheri’s years spent in Italy also serve as inspi­ra­tion, lend­ing Sub­fusco a “Styl­ish sophis­ti­cated edge.”

Q&A

Who are your fash­ion role mod­els?

What can I say? So many peo­ple to me are role mod­els. I look up to John Gal­liano and the likes of Vivien West­wood for their flam­boy­ance and avant-​​garde design lines, but I love the pre­cises cuts and sub­lime lines of Alessan­dro D’Aqua and Balenciaga…oh and Marc Jacobs is another.

What inspired you to start your own line?

• A lack of menswear
• Didn’t want to do a 9 – 5 job
• The excite­ment of an idea com­ing from the mind to paper to real life; like a liv­ing organ­ism on its jour­ney.  Fash­ion is like that for me. It’s born and evolves, only to become real once it’s on someone’s body.

How is the fash­ion scene in Aus­tralia?

Australia…we rock! I mean we have so many great design­ers who have really made it big, like Ksubi, Kirlily John­ston and heaps more, but what lacks in Aus­tralia, which makes it hard for emerg­ing design­ers and new kids on the block is our con­sumers. I have to admit, the typ­i­cal Aussie just doesn’t get fash­ion and being such a small pop­u­la­tion, its hard to gain expo­sure or gain a big piece of the mar­ket. We are slowly get­ting there, we just need more great fash­ion to be pumped out, so peo­ple even­tu­ally get the idea that it is great to dress up and fine to spend money on clothes.  Fash­ion is another part of your personality.

What do you think Aus­tralia has to offer the fash­ion world?

Fun and excit­ing designs. We have a diverse influ­ence to let’s say the Euro­pean mar­ket or the United States. Because we are so close to Asia, I believe a lot of our styles are influ­enced by the Asian and Japan­ese style.

Does resid­ing in Aus­tralia cause any issues with expan­sion, etc.?

Yeah it does…we live on this mas­sive Island in the mid­dle of nowhere…hard for inter­na­tional media to see and pick up new labels. Expan­sion to over­seas mar­kets are hard as taxes and freight costs are a lot and being a “Made in Aus­tralia” label, it’s expen­sive to get things made. By the time you have cal­cu­lated your prices for an over­seas mar­ket, prices are sim­i­lar to that of high end brands and this makes it hard for small brands to attract a mar­ket that has never heard of them before.

Who do imag­ine wear­ing your clothes?

Lenny Kravitz and Johnny Depp — All men who have a sense of self con­fi­dence and want to look sophis­ti­cated but still with that edgy feel.

What is the inspi­ra­tion behind your cur­rent col­lec­tion? Is it titled?

Romeo’s Closet.  Summer 09 is encap­su­lated with [a] mod­ern take of the roman­tic tale of Romeo and Juliet. It poses the ques­tion of what the con­tem­po­rary Romeo would look like and more impor­tantly what he would wear?  The col­lec­tion is rich with colours and tex­tures that ignite the senses and lingers with the mem­ory of love lost. Metallics such as gold and sil­ver rep­re­sent the cool­ness and the warmth of armour and the bat­tle in the story whilst the soft yel­lows, grays, reds, blacks and navys rep­re­sent the love and tragedy.

Asym­met­ri­cal con­struc­tion, smooth and tex­tured fab­rics and uncon­ven­tional design lines pro­vide jux­ta­po­si­tion for the today’s Romeo and the bat­tle between fem­i­nine and mas­cu­line and a touch of androg­yny. The orig­i­nal and quoted poetry printed on the t-​​shirts con­vey a deeper appre­ci­a­tion of the power of words and expres­sion SUBFUSCO’s Romeo is a mod­ern poet with a unique sense of indi­vid­ual style.

Who are the cur­rent stock­ists for your line?

We have sev­eral stock­ists in Aus­tralia and one inter­na­tional account in Taipei called PS Under­ground. We are cur­rently in the process [of] expand­ing with a test mar­ket in Italy and [even­tu­ally] the United States. We also do phone and email sales. You can see the range on our web­site and drop us a line with any queries.

Col­lec­tion cur­rently avail­able.  Visit the Sub­fusco web­site to view the full range and con­tact infor­ma­tion for sales.

Pic­tures from Sub­fusco

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