Transformation and East-meets-West cap Paris menswear week
PARIS (AP) — As Paris Vogue Week bids farewell to the menswear season, the ultimate day of exhibits consists of collections from Maison Margiela and Sacai.
However style insiders will not have time to relaxation. High fashion collections, together with from powerhouse Dior, are set to go on show beginning Monday within the French capital.
Listed here are some highlights from Sunday:
WOOYOUNGMI
It was East meets West for lauded Korean designer Woo Youngmi, whose present was greater than meets the attention.
The present Western obsession with Korean popular culture impressed Madame Woo to check out the shifting relationship between Korea and the West over time.
Delving into the historical past books, she come across the picture of the Korean Pavilion created for the 1900 Paris Exposition. The style home described it as “an impressive constructing constructed within the fashion of the South Korean palaces however re-contextualized inside the Haussmannian setting of Paris.”
This was the place to begin of the considerate assortment, which featured romantic silhouettes fusing the fin de siècle French and English Edwardian types — via driving coats, sack fits and driving boots — with city types akin to cargo components and archival items from Woo’s early 2000s collections.
She additionally reinterpreted jewellery worn by the rulers of Korea’s historical Silla kingdom in a up to date, ornamental sculptural kind.
SACAI UNZIPS
Transformation was on the coronary heart of a disruptive, fashion-forward co-ed Sacai present.
The fundamental premise was that altering one element, just a bit, can rework a whole visible form. The black sand that coated your complete venue ground on the Carreau du Temple — maybe signifying the sands of time — made the purpose when the slightest motion from visitors’ toes modified its form.
Japanese designer Chitose Abe used zippers to show shifting silhouettes, taking the identical garment with the zipper up or down, and draped across the physique in summary methods.
There was a way of infinite chaos within the three-dimensional shapes created by tying coats to the again of clothes within the primarily black and beige show. The booming soundtrack, and the best way fashions walked in interlocking formations, someday unintentionally practically bumping into one another, enhanced the temper.
A trench coat was deconstructed into its constituent components and fanned open dramatically to kind a form of reptilian hood trailing on the again. Sleeves on coats hung limply, with out performance, or have been tied as much as create infinitely diversified shapes that had style insiders reaching for his or her cameras.
THE ART OF THE INVITATION
The age of e-mail and rising environmental consciousness doesn’t appear to have left a lot of a mark on the style trade’s antiquated system of invites.
Season after season, gasoline-guzzling couriers crisscross Paris to personally ship ever-elaborate, typically handmade, present invitations.
Prime homes vie for the wackiest or most imaginative concept that always bears a clue as to the theme of the runway assortment.
The invitation Issey Miyake despatched out forward of a show that performed with making advanced shapes was a folding origami puzzle.
Marine Serré’s was a collection of nostalgic keyrings from the Sixties — a mini vegetable oil bottle and black chain. Overlaying it was a handwritten observe: “My grandfather who was a collector taught me how one can discover the sweetness in deserted on a regular basis life objects.”
Louis Vuitton’s was, extremely, a real-sizef film set clapboard inviting visitors to the cinematic present whose set was co-designed by film director Michel Gondry.