After making the pilgrimage from Brisbane to Melbourne, Reiss Radvanyi found the perfect niche for his unique brand of shadowy women’s wear. Creating an army of dark soldiers, the Radvanyi woman is enigmatic, infinitely cool, and marches to the beat of her own drum. Bound in layers of black and wrapped in textures from loosely knitted wool to soft silk, she’s a modern pagan, nomadic and primal. With a heavy metal soundtrack and the promise of satanic worship, she’s as spell binding as she is frightening.

With a credo that involves, quite literally, sticking it to the man, Reiss Radvanyi is concerned with pushing against the grain, shunning convention and corporate realities for his own re-imagined post apocalyptic world where darkness lurks in everything and creativity reigns supreme. His aesthetic connects the void between the past- the grungy fashions of the 90s- with the future- the dishevelled but still stylishly sexy future armies of Blade Runner-esque parallel universes.

Radvanyi is a label beset with various and seemingly irreconcilable contradictions. Producing a unique brand of anti-consumerist anti-fashion, Radvanyi doesn’t follow trends or play into the hands of commercial markets, but rather, exists on its own rebellious plain. Using a pastiche of idols and ideas, Radvanyi’s winter takes iconic music imagery and cuts and pastes to create something new but old- something we can relate to, but something from which we still have so much more to learn.