Looking Back To Paris In Tokyo Fashion Week

Looking Back To Paris In Tokyo Fashion Week

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Japanese designers remain exceptional in their unique vision and original fabrics

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At the recent Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2019 collections, Japanese designers' singular approach to texture and silhouette stood out. From left, Yoshiyuki Miyamae at Issey Miyake; Yohji Yamamoto; and Sacai

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Looking at images from the current Tokyo Fashion Week, I have tried to define, from a distance, what makes Japanese style so distinctive.
Our global universe mostly draws clothing trends together in a homogenous group. Yet Japan stands apart. There is the drape of shifting cloth across the body; the cut at a sharp angle; the fluidity of sexuality; and patterns that come from deep in the artistic psyche of the country.

Frustrating though it is not to be in Tokyo now, to witness the work of new designers and those from other Asian countries such as the Philippines, there is always something to see and to say about Japanese fashion – a subject that I did not pay enough attention to during the crowded Paris Spring/Summer 2019 season.  

At Issey Miyake Spring/Summer 2019, Creative Director Yoshiyuki Miyamae launched a new technical material – "Dough Dough" – that can be folded and twisted into shape, as shown here on hats and headpieces

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I was fascinated by designer Yoshiyuki Miyamae’s latest developments as Creative Director at Issey Miyake. He called it “Traces of Hands” – suggesting clothes for those who grow crops, gather food, make tools, draw pictures and decorate themselves, in what seemed like a homage to workers.
But it was the designer’s idea of clothes having “further freedom”, as he called it, which galvanised his collection. Human hands had woven, sewn, and shaped an innovative new material by a system called “Dough Dough”, translated by the designer as “twisting, rolling up, crumpling, folding or stretching”.

At Issey Miyake Spring/Summer 2019, colours both subtle and sumptuous, and beautiful folding techniques

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But the designer’s exceptional skill was not only in shaping the clothes, but also in his painterly palette – in plain beige or white, but also in patterned blue, green, turquoise and pink. That colouring even extended to hats, which the designer folded flat, shaped into twisted headpieces, or made from stiff straw.

The sense of freedom that blew like a breeze through the collection showed how intelligently the designer is running fast forward in founder Issey Miyake’s footsteps.

Yohji Yamamoto

Yohji Yamamoto Spring/Summer 2019

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The fluid, unstructured clothes that wrapped across the torso, almost all in black, seemed familiar but still extraordinary in the way that each piece was scissored to display flesh somewhere on the body. Necklines sloping off at an angle – or with a cut-out revealing just the shoulder bone – were followed by zips opening or closing in a way that suggested a woman in control.

Yohji Yamamoto Spring/Summer 2019

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