Istanbul-based lifestyle brand Les Benjamins reveals its Spring/Summer 2024 offering for Paris Fashion Week. Created as a tribute to writer and amateur sailor Sadun Boro, the first Turkish to circumnavigate the globe by sea, the collection takes its name from Kismet-Fortune, his sailing boat.
The SS24 ‘Kismet Voyage East to West’ collection features unconventional constructions, nautical-themed details and tailoring, and a contemporary futurist-nostalgia look through the brand’s Turkish roots. The collection’s color palette features whites, blues, and greens, with a sprinkling of sand and earth tones.
Unique to the collection are shirts, pants, tops, blazers, and dresses constructed with ropes or hand-made macrame detailing, marine life embroidery, sailing-inspired nylon fabric, degraded leathers, recycled materials, and denim. Also in the collection are silk fabrications, structured shapes, crisp tailoring, woven labels, and metal branding.
Highlight pieces include a patchwork denim button-up and pant pair with asymmetric rope detailing, a white macrame sleeved shirt with morse code patterning, a nautical blue and white top and pants ensemble with crisp wave-like shapes and rope detailing, and a lime green and tan puffer sleeveless top and wide pant ensemble with rope and zip detailing.
Check out the Les Benjamins SS24 collection images in the lookbook by photographer Zeynep Özkanca. The collection will go on sale next Spring/Summer 2024 from the Les Benjamins website and official outlets.
