Tops - Ad Astra

European Evgeny Avetisian founded his Ad Astra line in 2015 after a five-year stint designing and travelling around the old world countries including but not limited to France, Kuwait, India, China and Hong Kong. With a small but dedicated following in the underground and avant-garde communities who prize Ad Astra slim-fitting leather and tailor jackets, flowing bias-cut jersey skirts, tops and dresses, Evgeny explores the “in-between-ness” of dualisms like high/low and presence/absence in an astonishing range of original pieces. The label he is building thrives of an innovative, intellectually potent forces introducing deconstruction, asymmetry, and monochromatic colour schemes as a new paradigm for conceptual and radical 'anti-fashion' aesthetics in lifestyle. Classical and nostalgic influences to modern romantic glamour, the Brutalist and the Minimalist design, and an ascetic tribalism, all inspire Ad Astra to explore further the asymmetrical tunics, extravagant dresses mixed with sirwal shorts and harem pants, that all present a relentlessly original view of womenswear at once strong and soft, ancient and futuristic, priestly and profane. Ad Astra brings out a distressed sensibility with a cutting edge couture-like sophistication. Ad Astra Manifesto: “We encourage the utmost freedom of creation. We understand the hardships it implies. We are ready to take one more step further.” Per Aspera Ad Astra