For his second outing on the Paris couture calendar, Robert Wun picked up kind of the place he left off, increasing on concepts like final season’s blood-spattered robes with new propositions culled primarily from his favourite movies. It was additionally an train in gratitude, he mentioned, as this 12 months marks the tenth anniversary of his model.
“It’s this very robust reflection of how far I’ve come, and likewise I’m grateful that I by no means gave up,” he mentioned backstage earlier than his present. He additionally famous that now he’s extra snug with issues he believes in, whether or not there’s an apparent hyperlink to style or not.
His opening quantity, an extended black night robe, was embroidered with crystals to placing impact, showing streaked with rivulets of rain. A coatdress embroidered with mirrors gave a nod to the unique Matrix. The poetry he sees within the horror style returned in a blood-spattered marriage ceremony robe, an concept that discovered a brand new iteration in an embellished robe that gave the impression to be seeping completely different colours, as if it had been embroidered in Gobstopper candies and left exterior in a downpour.
Wun additionally demonstrated a mastery of draping, each with material (on a one-shoulder quantity in rosy beige silk or an electrical blue robe piled with dramatic ruffles) and with beading (on a showstopper of a quantity with lengthy black sleeves, a clear skirt, and tiers of inexperienced beading in back and front). He gave his humorousness free rein all through, whether or not on a relatively tame beaded headpiece and cat-eye glasses or surrealistic head ornaments. One gown with pointed shoulders, fluted bell sleeves, and corseted particulars got here with headgear that made it appear to be a cross-pollination between Maleficent and a praying mantis.
The finale, too, was a intelligent play on the horror style, with a human-shaped appendage seemingly unfastening the mannequin’s blood-red robe. Given the exuberance of gown at this couture week, it’s completely believable that somebody will present up in that one in some unspecified time in the future. Simply hope they don’t get a entrance row seat.
