Robert Wun celebrated the ten yr anniversary of his label with a couture present referred to as Time at the moment. He stated he wished to replicate on “why I’ve been doing this for thus lengthy, why do I nonetheless need to preserve doing it, and for a way lengthy.” He used these questions as a place to begin for a group of one-of-kind extravagant showstoppers. “I requested myself why I do trend, and what does time imply?“ Did he discover a solution? “Sure, I did. The reply is to just accept that sooner or later all the pieces ends — and that’s okay.”
For Wun, accepting time limitations fuels creativity; the one solution to make time significant, he reasoned, is having fun with the time you’ve been given on earth. “To say that we’ve received to dwell within the second is a cliché, however actually, what you’re doing you may solely do it as soon as, so higher take pleasure in it regardless of success or failure.” Up to now, success has been a extra doubtless prospect for Wun than failure. His elaborate concoctions have caught the eye of personal shoppers in addition to celebrities and their élite stylists, all the time on the prowl for the newest sensation. Wun creations’ flamboyant dazzle has attracted the likes of Beyoncé, Woman Gaga, Björk, and Cardi B, amongst many others—an inventory that at the moment makes for the barometer of a model’s hotness.
To translate the idea of the passing of time into precise clothes (not a simple feat actually), Wun envisioned the development of seasons. The opening look was an imposing black robe with matching veil embroidered in crystals, depicting “the primary falling of snow,” he supplied. “It’s winter, a season that makes individuals extra reflective, so I began from there.” A snowy impact was additionally rendered as a white layer on a slender traling coat that regarded as if it had been shredded aside after which mended again along with a form of kitsugi approach, replicating a craquelé impact from which butterfly appliqués appeared to be swirling out—an allusion to hope maybe? Or to magnificence blossoming from decay?
The reply appeared to be supplied by a sinuous black mermaid quantity, from which a tight-fitted bodice embroidered in pink cherry blossoms emerged. Wun stated it was meant as an harbinger of spring. “In Chinese language philosophy, flowers are stunning as a result of they aren’t meant to be endlessly; in the event that they’d blossom endlessly individuals wouldn’t discover magnificence in them.” So the decay of magnificence was a theme right here; the erosion that point makes on each residing being was apparently rendered by seen burns on the hems of a vivid yellow three-piece in swishing silk, voluminous and completely plissé. The burnings have been repeated with conviction all through the gathering. “We scanned the burn marks we’ve performed on a bit of organza, then we printed it on silk and we did additional burning on the perimeters to emphasise the impact,” defined Wun. “Burn, scan, print, after which reburn.”
Within the assortment’s narration of the passing of time, the 4 closing appears represented respectively the pores and skin, the flesh, the bones, and the soul, in a form of progressive stripping off, each bodily and religious. Probably the most impressively rendered have been the flesh and the bone. The flesh was a blood-red slender sheath completely coated in bugle beads that have been sewn standing up as spikes and never flat as they’re often embroidered. The gown was apparently so heavy (40 kilos) that it couldn’t be hung. “I wished to offer the thought of the muscle tissue that come out of the physique,” stated Wun, who’s identified to be an fanatic of the horror style—a penchant made abundantly clear by the illustration of the bones. A skintight black jumpsuit was surmounted by a half-skeleton model that dangled ominously at each step. Its reasonably literal rendition was one way or the other redeemed by that of the soul. It was a imaginative and prescient of a trailing veiled robe, the place layers of tulle have been embroidered with myriads of tiny multicolored crystals shimmering within the dimly lit venue. It regarded reasonably magical. “The soul isn’t meant to perish,” Wun stated. “It goes again to the Universe.”
