If there is one brand that the world needs to stop, drop and roll its collective mouse over online to check out every season, it¡¯s Anrealage. We have come to always expect something fascinating and innovative from this techie-experimental label ¡ª and at Fashion Week Tokyo this time around it again did not disappoint.
By innovatively infusing fabrics with photo-chroma technology (as in indoor-outdoor sunglasses), designer Kunihiko Morinaga was able to make white clothing awash with bright colors and patterns in high-light situations, then magically return them to white at the flip of a switch. It is a feat of imagination and skill that should see Morinaga competing on the global stage very soon.
Gothic-lifestyle brand Alice Auaa also had one of the most impressive shows of the week, bringing some much-needed fantasy to the runway. Metallic steampunk crinolines, a giant wearable helium spider body and lots of black lace were among the characters in a story of a Greek goddess who transforms into an arachnid. The clothes are all handmade couture, by appointment only, that are created at Alice Auaa¡¯s new salon on Tokyo¡¯s swanky Omotesando boulevard.
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