In the spring/summer 2024 season, Acephala creates a fantasy about a wedding. The wedding as a remix of tradition with contemporaneity, a carnivalesque moment of harmonious coexistence of opposites, a marriage of different generations and aesthetics. The campaign for the collection was photographed against a set design mimicking Polish wedding halls from the 90s, with a touch of Lynchian surrealism. It's a particular jest with convention.

The collection is a clash of inspirations and motifs. Folk elements, lingerie details, traditional tailoring, and sporty cuts appear side by side. There are laces, knits, prints, and also noble wool and sporty taslan. Layered ruching and fraying edges. Grandmotherly chic and youthful nonchalance. Total eclecticism.
A characteristic feature of the collection is the reminiscences of peasant and folk culture, translated into contemporary language. Dresses with a scarecrow structure, a sweatshirt with slit sleeves inspired by the kontusz (a traditional Polish garment), corsets handwoven on looms from remnants of fabrics used in the collection. The fraying edges of fabric strips layered over each other create a unique three-dimensional texture (decorating pocket flaps, cuffs, shirt fronts, and t-shirts), giving classic wardrobe elements like suits or white shirts personality and an artisanal character.

Acephala's tendency to use unnecessary and discarded materials is not new. Apart from scraps, old fabric coupons and unused elastic bands were pulled from the brand's warehouse, from which dresses and tops were made (all in very limited quantities). Some models are repurposed garments from previous collections. A significant majority of materials come from deadstocks.
The collection was created as a result of a certain experiment. We wanted to move away from the formal discipline in working on the collection and following a pre-determined thesis. We started collecting materials that attracted us with their texture, texture, color. And then we let the material lead us, stimulate associations. In a sense, each model was created in isolation, unrelated to the entirety of the collection.
It's hard to call this collection an occasional fashion collection. It's a collage mix made up of clothes suitable for many occasions, designed to provide the greatest comfort in use and freedom in styling, easy to adapt in everyday life. The unpretentious “wedding dress” was sewn from cotton poplin. Asymmetrical coats have hoods and double adjacent pockets. Of the two skirt models, one is elasticated, the other loosely tied around the waist. Knit dresses are reversible and can be worn back to front.

Dresses have linings or additional petticoats, pajama pants are finished with a French seam. The cuts are loose and comfortable.
Although Acephala's vision of the wedding is not entirely standard, it includes everything required by the traditional wedding rhyme: "something new, something old, something borrowed, something blue."

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