September 26, 2021

Meet Saint Sintra, the “Radically Optimistic” Brand that Debuted at NYFW

By Sintra Martins
Meet Saint Sintra, the “Radically Optimistic” Brand that Debuted at NYFW
“The message is chaos, total chaos,” the designer Sintra Martins said of her spring 2022 Saint Sintra collection, which she showed Tuesday in a relatively nondescript building called The Stranger in Hell’s Kitchen. The steel and concrete foyer at 303 West 57th Street belied the fantasy world inside, behind a pair of orange velvet curtains. The room was carpeted with astroturf and filled with folding lawn chairs and a floor-to-ceiling dollhouse. One corner had a tiki-esque waterfall, another was decorated with a lit-up scoreboard—next to that, a DJ booth with a disco ball. An animatronic elephant wearing a gold collar moved its head around. The place looked like a garden party on psychedelics.