Post-Apocalyptic Anthropocene Collection
Fall/Winter 2023-2024
With her new collection, designer Anna Yang continues her exploration of the โpost-humanโ concept with a post-apocalyptic twist. The ANNAKIKI Autumn/Winter 2023-2024 collection, entitled โPost-Apocalyptic Anthropocene,โ imagines how humans will come together as a community to support each other in a world ravaged by chaos and destruction.






Drawing inspiration from cyberpunk and wasteland punk elements, Yangโs collection features a futuristic armor for the โpost-humanโ – a concept described by some scholars as an โevolved humanโ or โtranshuman.โ The armor, which features the brandโs signature 3D wavy sleeves and a composite metallic fabric, allows for many possibilities to transform the body. The brandโs consistent liquid metallic fabric gives the armor a fantastical shine, like a futuristic warrior. The deliberately burned, soiled, and hand-painted dirty prints reflect the designerโs portrayal of an anti-utopian environment, and the rebellious and fearless human resistance against the harsh post-apocalyptic environment as well as the artificial intelligence that has become self-aware under the brutality of technology.











In addition to the armor, the collection features a collaboration with Italian accessories brand AnGostura, which often draws inspiration from ancient occult and indigenous cultures to create imaginative โbody sculptures.โ AnGostura has created unique glass and metal earrings for ANNAKIKIโs post-human legion, a fusion of fragile glass and hard metal, a reflection of human nature struggling with crisis; fragile yet indestructible.













โWhen human beings cease to be indifferent to the pull of profit, and the purpose and only purpose of desire is survival, then we will abandon our egoism and come together as a multitude to fight against the unknown and turbulent world,โ says Anna Yang.
Josip Grabovac