“Bang’s return was a dissonant medley of the designer’s ideas that have been brewing in his head since his last show in 2019: Tennis! Paris! Water!” “The real challenge is to shut up about ‘ Challengers ,’” read a tweet a week into the release of Luca Guadagnino’s tennis threesome dubbed “the movie of summer.” Two months after its theatrical release, some fans still can’t shut up about it. People are dancing to its soundtrack by Atticus Ross and Trent Reznor at the club, and most recently, at a fashion show staged by designer Bang Pineda at the Makati Stock Exchange, where models wore radioactive tennis ball-yellow pieces that glowed in the dark, alongside rhinestoned and deconstructed tailoring, his signature denim streetwear staples, and form-fitting chiffon dresses with protruding tennis balls.
Honestly, it’s a lot for one show. Running at a total of 50 looks, Bang’s return to the runway was a dissonant medley of the designer’s ideas that have been brewing in his head since his last show in 2019: Tennis! Paris! Water! The spectacle though is something else. Staged at the fountain area of the Leandro Locsin-designed structure , “State of the Bang”—a rather serious name for a playful collection—was meant to sit a 500-person guestlist.
The designer’s name is after all synonymous with noise. The show was attended by a slew of celebrities including actor and newly sworn-in president of the Senate Spouses Foundation Inc. Heart Evangelista .
