Michiko Suzuki - Y's Red Label S/S 09 Tokyo

[runner]

will try to find more later
wwd

 

[softgrey]

ah yes...i was looking for this...
thank you runner....

Japan Fashion Week doesn’t kick off until next week, but Michiko Suzuki, the designer behind Yohji Yamamoto’s Y’s Red Label, got the season off to a pagan start Wednesday evening, showing her all-black spring collection to fashion editors assembled in a large ring in a Tokyo park. Veiled models with tiny white lights adorning a shoulder or a thigh soon made way for a more sober offering of pantsuits and evening gowns — some backless and sporting thin chains. Then things got quirky again when the models’ heads started sprouting tree branches adorned with dead birds. “The theme is witchcraft and I’m the witch,” Suzuki joked post-show.

from wwd..
maybe someone can post the entire article?...

thanks!

 

[Scott]

and who doesn't love a bit of witchery

that sounds really beautiful....branches with dead birds....

 

[adorefaith]

wow...looks enchanting so far i love it...looking forward to seeing more..

thanks for the picture and article runner and soft

 

[cerfas]

i second that!

 

[mishahoi]

I wrote about this for Jcreport.com

It was fantastic---very very cool. It began with fiber optic headdresses and details in complete darkness. She (Michiko) said she has already grown tired of military designs.....and color

Japan Fashion Week is just getting under way, but Y's Red Label is already making headlines—literally. Designed by Michiko Suzuki, the collection unofficially kicked off the spring/summer '09 runway celebration last week. Hauntingly titled "Witch," the show featured pieces from Red Label's third collection and was held among the trees of a park at dusk—headlined with a banner that read: "I'll paint the whole world black. Then the light will fall and caress it."

As the audience sat in near darkness, several black figures made a mystifying entrance with bobbing fiber optical lights. This eerie glow gradually increased, revealing a sleek but somber set of tapered pants and blazers with giant black sequin discs or patterns of rubber screenprinting that glimmered in the light. The collection eventually transformed into a post-futuristic old world aesthetic of long loose sweaters and maxi skirts. The look was accented with sticks, bones and birds in mid-flight (engineered by Yoshiko Kajitani, of accessories brand Yoshiko Creation Paris) that jutted out of puffy Quaker skirts or perched on models' messy braided heads.

When asked about the significance of the bones, Suzuki explained: "When you think about life you also think about death. It's the same thing, I think." Echoing this sentiment, the show was set to a resoundingly solemn soundtrack that included "How To Disappear Completely" by Radiohead and orchestral arrangements by Alberto Iglesias. "A black world is dangerous, so the sparkling accents represent the light, which are our hopes. I've become stronger as a designer, and I know what I want to show that now," said Suzuki.

 

[Scott]

no wonder the style of the headdress seemed so familiar to me.....i love yoshiko's work!!! and really it's a marriage made in heaven this collaboration as in her own personal aesthetics she often juxtaposes very macabre and naturistic elements in her pieces.

 

[softgrey]

lovely description misha......

i can almost see it now..

 

[kiddokiddo]

I'm dying to see it..........

 

[kiddokiddo]

ah a few images from jcreport

 

[Inaya]

Thanks so much for all of the images I like many of the pieces and the makeup is brilliant

 

[4n98]

Alexander McQueen + Yohji Yamamoto?
Anyway,i Like It.

 

[Scott]

looks gorgeous! love the execution of the pailettes. they don't take away any of the dark elements at all. could have been dangerous territory when your theme is very melancholic.

 

[adorefaith]

pictures #2 and #3.......magnificent...

 

[Dali]

I looks great on those pics

 

[runner]

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[runner]

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[luckyme]

stopped me dead in my tracks...talk about being there. I could almost hear the peepers...(does Japan have peepers?)

so pretty how the lights reflect off the big button sequins.

thanks, runner.

 

[Scott]

oh my what a magical setting that is!! my heaven amongst the trees.....just makes me want to be there. just to absorb those clothes against all that.

 

[iyemstoopid]

holy s**t... breathtaking