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Timur Kim

Autumn Winter 2015

Timur Kim, embarks on a journey exploring sartorial embodiments of emotion. The first, for this season, epitomizes "anger" and the struggle to control it.

Beginning calmly, pure denim looks, a signature for the designer, are tampered with patches of leather and embroidery, signifying a disturbance. Intensifying emotions are portrayed by complex mix of techniques and diversity of styles and accessories from intricate hand-threading of denim to delicate embroideries, often patchworker in one tonal piece.

Naturally for the designer, denim can be found in every single look, quite often accompanied by this season's new light luxe wool. Though, for autumn/Winter 2015 Kim has reinvigorated his trademark fabric; pleated stretched denim goes throughout all the stages of "anger"- bleaching, dying and finally tearing apart into tiny little pieces, only to be precisely hand-threaded through hand-knitted pieces.  

Tadashi Shoji Fall 2015

At the intersection between aircraft mechanics and winged flight, we find our muse piloting the avian highways, inspired by the joy of flight.

The spinning wings of propellers start de hum. Metal gears begin their rotational motion. Mechanical wings of flying machines take to the air. Painted with the ivory brushstrokes of windswept clouds, the skies sparkle today. Birds glide majestically, dancing on air currents with graceful wingbeats.

Etherial silhouettes evoke a feeling of weightlessness. Aerodynamic seaming inspirits movement. With wings outstretched, air gusts lift the birds further in flight. As if mussed by the wind, feathers of frayed-edge silk organza and hand-cut tulle create lighter-than-air gowns and floor length capes. Dipping to dreamier depths, aerial views inspire the textures of custom-designed jacquards.

Airplane mechanics influence allover metallic embroideries of copper, gold, and silver burnish luxe knits, while feathered-wing- motif can be found in sheer laces and tactile embellishments. A monochromatic palette of black, ivory and navy transitions to semiopaque hues created from bicolor layering of diaphanous tulles.

Soaring into the upper reaches of the atmosphere, free from the forces of gravity, orbiting the uncharted skies, our sky voyager find her bliss. 

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"Black is becoming; a young widows, fair, plump, and smiling, with their roguish eyes sparkling under their black veils are very seducing.

Robert De Valcourt, The Illustrated Manners Book, 1885

  American

"She was a beginning to find that everyone had an air of remoteness; she seemed to see people and life through the confusing blur of the long crape veil in which it was a widow's duty to shroud her affliction"

Edith Wharton, New York Day, 1870's

"The scots shut themselves up in total darkness, wear veils, I know not how many folds, but so black that sitting beside them you could not tell whether it is a broomstick dressed up or what it is."

Elizabeth Emma Stuart, 1856

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