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Issey Miyake: Crayola Colors
By: Karin Nelson
Photo by Gruber-FWD
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Paris, Oct, 8, 2001/ FWD/ --- Sitting on each seat, a program note origami-folded into a bouquet
of roses poetically told of the inspiration behind Issey Miyake’s Spring 2002 collection: flowers.
“In view of their fragility and their beauty, the uncertainty of [the] blossom is a miracle
which does not cease to astound us,” it read, stating also that “after the terror, it is the
possibility of the like and creation that we must assert in the face of destruction.”
So, with that in mind, Naoki Takizawa – who’s helmed the Miyake machine for two years now –
presented a burst of crayola-colored pieces on girls festooned with leaves in their hair.
A host
of sweet-tooth looks opened the show: boat-neck sweaters, skinny jeans, short shorts and knee
socks in block and stripe patterns – hits amongst the Hello Kitty set, but maybe a bit too cute
for others.
The strongest pieces were of course the experimentally shaped ones.
Dimensional jackets were
divided up into cubic gatherings, and one particular black pleated dress seemed to be sealed
shut around the waist.
Garnering the most applause was a set of fluid dresses in pale pink, putty and espresso,
gracefully gathered into a single flower that rested either on the hip, above the breast, or
around the back.
Elegant and intellectual, they were classic Miyake masterpieces.
Unfortunately, though, the show returned back to where it dizzyingly began, with a set of
busybody, multi-stripped outfits with streamers, ribbons and tulle going here and flying there,
to the point where the girls, standing on triangular blocks, resembled a bunch of piñatas ready
for play.
Issey Miyake by Naoki Takizawa
Issey Miyake by Naoki Takizawa
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