Saint Sintra (Q3584)
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Saint Sintra is a fashion house from FMD.
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Saint Sintra |
Saint Sintra is a fashion house from FMD. |
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women's wear designer
After a tumultuous year, Sintra Martins has been leaning into “the chaos of it all.” Backstage at her fall 2023 party held at the buzzy Jac’s on Bond, she was dressing her models and sewing on the last few looks even an hour into the party. Martins, like other designers, felt the unexpected pressure to play into professionalism that might come with being on the official calendar. But this season she decided to do things her way. “I’m interested in decentralizing the fashion show,” Martins said. “I think this collection is some of my strongest work, so showcasing it in an impromptu way indicates the community-building aspect of the brand I am trying to cultivate.”With limited time to find models for her presentation (which went into planning a week ago), Martins gathered a group of her close friends to be wear her clothes. “They’re the women who inspire me,” the designer said. In the back room at Jac’s, it was your usual scene of a girl’s night out, with the music blasting and friends helping each other with final beauty touch-ups before taking photos of each other. The collection included dresses like look 11, made of a spandex bathing suit material with a V cut to make for a form-fitting mini length that doesn’t risk flashing people as you get in and out of a cab. Satin and velvet skirts softly skimmed the body. The clothes may have felt slightly unfinished, but Martins has the ability to perfect fits for various body types. And better yet, her friends exuded confidence and hot girl energy, which only a hot outfit can bring about.
15 February 2023
Sintra Martins has been delving into AI, and she used software to develop some of her spring 2023 silhouettes, a few cinched and überfeminine. A number of these pieces indeed felt tech-minded, like a silver eco-leather shirt with slits on the sleeves that squeezed the body, paired with an ankle-skimming skirt with a va-va-voom, thigh-high slit.Yet, computerized intervention or not, everything felt sensual, even in the most traditional masculine pieces like suiting. Plaid wool fabric was divvied and chopped, transformed into an itty-bitty, waist-cinching, buttoned shirt with tiny shorts, making for a coquettish and flirty look that was ripe for an HR violation. Another fabulously femme detail that offset the rigid suit fabric was a pair of black lace gloves that elegantly peeked through the cuff of a classic white shirt. That plaid was further morphed into a large pleated skirt alongside the celeb piece du jour, a corset emphasizing a wasplike silhouette.Martins has a cool way of playing with hard and soft, giving hefty fabrics a gentle shape. One standout was a pretty denim jacket, oversized with billowing bishop sleeves that had a romantic way of sitting on the body, fit for day or night.
4 October 2022
Sintra Martins is a New Yorker’s designer. Even if her models teetered on T-bar stiletto heels, her ideas about dressing are firmly footed in the core belief of Big Apple style: that a garment’s purpose comes second to the attitude it evokes. The Sintra mood is short, sexy, and a little catty, but for fall she pushed past costume and into ready-to-wear. OK, yes, there was a tiered cotton dress of S-curved horsehair filaments inspired by a vintage Halloween costume, and yes, it looked like a couture version of the Michelin man’s skeleton, and yes, OK, it did take a pair of scissors to cut it off the model post-show, but let’s not linger there even though it was kookily gorgeous. Martins’s accomplishment here was honing her eclectic vision into viable clothes that didn’t lose their edge.When Martins’s trip to Florence, Italy, in late 2021 got extended because of COVID precautions, she fell in love with the city and its fabrics. All the shirting stripes in this collection, tied up into bows on button-downs, were custom-made by an Italian producer. Tweeds, laced with metallic silver ribbons, came from the same mill that produces for Chanel. She also pushed past her tailoring staples into something more sinuous: A liquid periwinkle silk dress that buttons up the back was surely the most sensual garment amongst more structured looks, and it showed her range. While she does structure with panache—just look at the fit on that little pink bloomer suit—her stripped down and stripped away pieces are devilishly good too.
13 February 2022