Item 2019.4 - Sibling Side-lacing Girdle Pants

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2019.4

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Sibling Side-lacing Girdle Pants

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  • Spring Summer 2016 (Creation)

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Sibling
(2008-2017)

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Sibling was founded by Sid Bryan (b. 1974), Joe Bates (1967–2015) and Cozette McCreery (b. 1968) in 2008. They showed their first menswear collection for Spring Summer 2008, and their first womenswear collection, Sister by Sibling, was introduced in 2012. Sibling received NEWGEN support from the British Fashion Council (BFC) for both their menswear and womenswear presentations at London Fashion Week and London Collections: Men, from Spring Summer 2012 until Autumn Winter 2013. In 2013 they were announced as one of the recipients of the BFC’s Fashion Forward initiative to support menswear companies to show during London Collections: Men. In 2013 Sibling were selected to represent Europe at the International Woolmark Prize held during Milan Fashion Week in February 2014. In 2015 founding member Joe Bates died after a lengthy illness. Sibling was forced to withdraw from London Fashion Week in September 2016 due to financial difficulties, including rising costs, a declining exchange rate and uncertainty surrounding the UK’s decision to exit the EU. They merged their menswear and womenswear presentations at London Fashion Week Men’s in January 2017, but the company filed for voluntary liquidation in March 2017. The brand collaborated with several companies including Brora, River Island, Swarovski, Barbie, G-SHOCK, Fred Perry, Topman and PUMA.
Sources: Telegraph Magazine; WWD.

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Westminster Menswear Archive

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Blue cropped Trousers with orange side lace-up. The centre front crotch also has a lace crotch up. The side lace-up sections are finished with blue grosgrain tape, have silver metal eyelets and are laced with an orange tubular knit lace. The Trousers body fabric is a fine elasticated knit. The waistband is a dark blue elastic, lined with orange elastic on the inside. The back waistband is elasticated, and the back is cut away from the waistband which drops down on the body to reveal the bum. The crotch has a gusset panel.

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      Colour: Dark blue, Orange knit. Label: Sibling London.

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      Worn as part of runway look 24 in Sibling 2016, London Collections Men, June 2015.

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      From Inside the Westminster Menswear Archive:

      SIDE-LACING GIRDLE PANTS
      Sibling
      Spring Summer 2016
      The undergarments worn by American high school football players, such as vintage football girdles and lace-up padded pants, inspired Sibling’s Spring Summer 2016 collection. While the American jock was viewed as a masculine archetype, Sibling disrupted this perception with the use of
      colour and materials, including sequins and glitter for part of the collection. These blue elasticated cropped pants featured side lacing, and an exaggerated lace-up crotch. The side lace-up sections are finished with blue grosgrain tape and feature silver metal eyelets threaded with lengths of thick orange tubular knit lace. The back waistband is a wide section of black elastic attached to the side seams only, allowing the back of the pants to slide down and expose the top of the buttocks.
      Cotton, Elastic
      Archive no. 2019.4

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