Baroque theatricality
The woman wearing Yoshiki Hishinuma's designs seems to step right out of a fairy tale. Black togas bedecked with gold, astonishing velvet and dévoré or stained materials in subtle combinations of rust and grey-greens, lavender toned down with blue, ivory and blinding orange, false green-blacks, antique pink and grey, black, midnight blue and deep red for long dresses and long skirt ensembles. A variety of special details add to the theme, including unusual necklines and frayed effects on seems, cuffs and collars that evoke eternal beauties of the past come back to haunt us. Lace-like knit adorns necklines, jackets and the bottoms of the tunics forming ensembles with long, sometimes asymmetrical skirts and adds to the baroque theatricality and the idea of sumptuous rags the collection evokes. Contrasts with matte and transparent materials, blends of fabrics, unusual ruffled effects on the sleeves and hips, pleats and wrinkles, high collars, draping, waffling, superpositions, all create strange lines that play on ampleness and tightness, short and round or else very long and thin shapes... unexpected costumes for heroines of a space opera of medieval or romantic inspiration.
Virginie Transon
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