Suzaan Stander

Suzaan Stander

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Occupying the space between fantasy and reality

A woman with dark skin, short blonde hair, and bold makeup, wearing a black and white fashion-forward outfit, stands against a plain white background with text partially visible on the right.
A woman with curly hair wearing a red, strapless leather dress, standing against a white wall with a black equipment case to her left.
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  • “Individuality, after all, is Stander’s forte. Venal armour, which featured sculptural corsetry intricately manipulated into otherworldly silhouettes, immediately marked her as a designer to watch.”

    Refinery 29

  • "The claustrophobic, camp horror worlds of Dario Argento. The lurching, fantastical realm of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The amorphous romance of Virginia Woolf's Orlando. The mind-bending surrealism of Salvador Dali. All have seeped under the skin of Suzaan Stander and into her designs."

    Vogue

  • "Her work - twisted, torqued construction and corsetry, (sits) somewhere between armour and a warped fairytale."

    Vogue

  • “Unexpected, abstract and wholly her own.”

    Fashion journal