Street couture

technical description

Asymmetrical woven T-shirt made with raw cut cotton stripes, floating threads, coordinated satin ribbons, over worn sections, plastic decorations and maxi decorative buttons. Worn with a melange wool wrap skirt with an overlapping button placket, back godet drape, internally mounted contrasting trimmings, frayed edges and contrast stitching.

Size 1380x510x250mm, 1000 gr., 2004

concept

Takashi developed his personal version of Street Couture as if he were looking through a broken door, or through a huge hole in a destroyed building of a war zone. He asked himself what would be the world like for someone who was only accustomed to military destruction and conflict. What would one create if that was the only reality? If exploded tanks, deflagrated bomb shells and collapsed brick walls where his everyday view out of the doorstep? Raw hems, military references and a colour palette inspired by war photography were all part of Takashi's tools to create this collection.

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