Is shouldn’t be shocking that Jun Takahashi is a Twin Peaks aficionado. There are any variety of parallels between the designer’s embrace of strangeness and the unsettling sequence by David Lynch that has stood the check of time. With official authorization, this assortment made use of title graphics, a sequence of stills from key moments—some color-filtered—and different symbols such because the Double R diner. The garments checked each wearable field: outer layers that would face up to the Northwest climate; informal athletic items in burgundy and forest inexperienced; grey fits that riffed on roomy ‘90s silhouettes. Notably, the photographs weren’t screen-printed however fairly jacquards, that means that they had been embedded inside precise material after which patched onto the garments—a extra difficult course of testifying to Takahashi’s technique-based strategy.
Elsewhere, with Angelo Badalamenti’s rating from the sequence wafting by way of the showroom, embroideries of mini crosses floated throughout chinos and shirts, scattered right here and there or in bigger clusters. Plaids had been enlarged and interpreted in streetwear and workwear shapes whereas Takahashi’s doodles ended up on shirts and a down coat. Two characters confronted one another with speech bubbles. “Can I ask one thing?” stated one. “No,” stated the opposite. A dialog killer turns into a dialog starter.
This assortment’s title, “Great and Unusual” got here courtesy of a quote from Agent Cooper, “I do not know the place this can lead us, however I’ve a particular feeling it will likely be a spot each great and unusual.” One can solely guess what the director will make of the gathering, whereas everybody else might want to decide whether or not they’re snug being out on the earth sporting jackets emblazoned with Cooper smoking a cigarette or Laura Palmer’s autopsy face. However in these unsure instances, maybe dressing by way of a Lynchian lens turns into a type of mordant protection.
