FOR PFW SS17, Issey Miyake’s collection was bright bold and brash. Creative director Yoshiyuki Miyamea, inspired by the vivacity of living, filled this season’s collection with colour-blocked Kabuki.
With Japanese art of origami being the forefront of the show, the collection saw three-dimensional pleating and tribal-inspired prints running throughout. The contemporary parade of sleeveless shifts, patterned with geometric dashes of opulent colour and suit separates folded and layered like angular origami, was an authentic Issey Miyake combination of Eastern and Western codes.
Conveying the mindset of Yoshiyiuki Miyamae’s geometric concepts, faceted forms lay throughout the show space, while the live electronic synthesizer had been deliberately directed to have a misaligned feel. All in all, this SS collection defiantly took the bright path, and the ghostly white circles that contoured the face added that extra vavavoom.
by Kirsty Small
View the collection here