The account of how Kenzo Takada (click here for spring collection) came from Edo to Paris in the sixties, porta up a dialogue between the two cities that has been one of the almost influential in fashion, give be repeated often this year as the company he based celebrates its 40th anniversary.
For Kenzo ‘s new men’s collection, creative director Antonio Marras imagined a journey in the other direction: a French artist traveling to Edo for the first time and fascinating the intricacies of Japanese aegean into his own style. disposed Marras’ knack for storytelling, it was a perfect match of designer and inspiration. Without e’er veering into playfulness or costume, he created a armoire that had enough individual flourish to subtly prayer to any man’s latent dandy.
At first, Kenzo untreated his artist in jackets, pants, and tops in the Mediterranean blue-white-and-stripes story that’s emerging as one of the season’s most appealing trends. After that, he transported him to the Far East, where artisanal weaving, crocheting, quilting, and dyeing techniques added new depth to familiar Western items. It was striking in a suit transformed by splodges of Japanese watercolor (whether ink, bleach, or paint, that splodge account is another theme for bedspring 2011), in outerwear heavily quilted and layered, and in the tone-on-tone use of intense color.

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A containerful of distinctive women, including actress Joana Preiss and model Hannelore Knuts, walked in the show eating away clothes from the men’s collection.
Marras asked them to choose their own outfits because he wanted to testify how pieces designed for a man’s body could relieve look great on women. “That’s the freedom of Kenzo, the breaking of rules,” he said.
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