Mister It.’s Takuya Isagawa has a whole lot of expectations to satisfy in Tokyo. He refined his craft below John Galliano at Maison Margiela in Paris, the place he spent six years engaged on each the primary line and the Artisanal assortment. He got here again to Tokyo in 2018 to launch Mister It., and has been slowly constructing buzz round it for the previous few years.
This morning Isagawa held his first runway present within the Shibuya Hikarie, and we lastly received a glimpse of what Mister It. is about. It occurred on a raised runway operating straight down the room; every look was spotlighted because it got here out, leaving the remainder of the corridor in darkness.
Isagawa designs what he calls “high fashion for on a regular basis life,” taking his expertise of constructing garments for VIPs in a Parisian maison and bringing it all the way down to earth in his personal quirky means. He wrapped virtually each look in a strip of cloth that learn “couture rhythm,” in a nod to pinning cloth to stitching mannequins when slicing toiles.
There have been big chunky knits and well-structured coats, however probably the most attention-grabbing items have been those that confirmed off each Isagawa’s technical prowess and his humorousness. He lengthened the again of a collared white shirt right into a billowing costume, slashed armholes within the sides of coats and shirts to create capes with extraneous sleeves, and referenced cartonnage (the French apply of cardboard craft and masking with materials) in a windowpane test camel go well with, full with a hood and a tiny little window for the face to peek out from. Even the bicycle the mannequin wheeled down the runway had been smothered within the cloth.
Later got here large coronary heart emojis, which have been made right into a pink scarf and a white costume. Although not seen from the front-view runway pics, there have been additionally leather-based luggage made within the form of coat hangers— with working zips! Ridiculous in the easiest way, and an excellent instance of Isagawa’s surreal strategy.
Enjoyable and friendship are at the actual coronary heart of what Isagawa does. He was in Paris solely every week in the past, and he recorded the sounds of the Metro, the rattle of stitching machines, and of his French mates talking in damaged Japanese, which he wove into the soundtrack for the present.
Was this one assortment sufficient for us to grasp who Mister It. is? When requested backstage what he was making an attempt to convey with the present, Isagawa stated: “Garments are enjoyable and have energy. It’s actually that easy.” Possibly generally it’s.
