Junya Watanabe F/W 09.10 Paris

[nijuyanah]

First images on getty:

[thiago:)]

Hair and make up look so interesting so far!
I'm liking it.

[GuerrillaBoy]

Hair and make up are amazing!! Katsuya Kamo did it again! As for the clothes I need to see more but they look promising.....

[Selket]

Liking it so far, especially the long coats!

[sethii]

By Hilary Alexander
Last Updated: 11:13AM GMT 07 Mar 2009


Models wear creations from the Junya Watanabe autumn/winter 09/10 collection at Paris Fashion Week Photo: AFP/GETTY

Two of Puccini’s most famous and tragic operas, “Madame Butterfly” and ‘Tosca’, formed a suitably sombre soundtrack for the Junya Watanabe show; both heroines die, one by stabbing herself in the breast with a dagger, the other by hurling herself from the city battlements.
It was thus unsurprising that the entire collection – save for one white, pleated shirt, some gold chains and a few gold lame shifts (and even they were veiled in black chiffon) – was in black.
The models appeared, as the Puccini arias soared; voluminous, puffed-out black figures, dimly discerned against black walls and black carpet. As they entered a solitary pool of light in front of the cameras, the beams picked out the towering 3ft high wigs, designed and made in Japan by Kastsuyo Kamo, the black face-paint and the all-enveloping coats, capes and dresses, all made from down-filled nylon in the manner of duvets and sleeping bags.
High collars framed the faces, sleeves were folded like heron’s wings, black gloves, black leggings and flat, black patent laced-ups completed the midnight parade. Occasionally, the capes were raised up to enshroud the head – and then dropped dramatically to the floor as the models approached the photographers.
Other times they were part-open at the front to disclose Watanabe’s ingenious ways with draping, pleating, folding and godets, which created a more controlled volume, in black jersey.
Shown without the feathered-filled outer layers were more black jersey dresses, knotted like togas and worn over black polo-necks and leggings, with just a tiny glimpse of bare ankle above the shoes. Gold lame skirts and shifts, and gold chains which tethered sections of the duvets, were a brief, sparkling punctuation.
“Feathers and hair,” Watanabe said backstage. “I wanted to make feathers not casual.”
All around him, studio aides were busily wrapping up the black, feather-filled designs in brown paper sacks.

telegraph.co.uk

[sethii]

daylife.com

[user500]

that is a funny effect the make up create. i have never seen that. the face looks like painted into the whole silhouette.

[sqekcx]

Fabulous and captivating so far.
Can't wait for the full collection!

[fashion.fashoff]

omg i love this & can't wait for the full collection. the make-up is brilliant...creates the effect of flatness, the faces look like they are in 2D (like a graphic novel).

[laika]

this sounds and looks absolutely incredible!!!
a good twist for junya, i think.

[nijuyanah]

I'm absolutely in love with this too so amazing! Especially the golden "chains".. woah

[trikekos]

lashhah I love it, I cant wait to see the rest.. and the make up!!!!!<3

[leblue15]

its looking good! and I love the hair and makeup

[Scott]

its stunning! i think its perhaps the richest,most dramatic he's done in a while.

[bittercain]

just wonderful
Hurray