This year’s LVMH Awards are one of the semi -finalists, Rayota Murakami is a permanently strange knitted knitteer designer and one of Japan’s top -emerging female talent. This season for his collection, which he showed in a large hall in the Sinagawa district of Tokyo, he saw the decade since launching his brand Pillings. “We paid full attention to the techniques that we could not master, the parts we could not express well, and the things we could do better. We wanted to update it instead of just looking back, ”they explained the backstage. Most of the knots in the collection were deliberately shrunk, which was partially a practice in relying on the process. “This is something you cannot control, you don’t know how it is going to exit,” he said.
It turned out to be surprisingly strange. There were moth-made blankets that were wrapped around the body of the model, with a restricted ruched weapons to the crumpled cardigan, and knitted fabrics that were almost fungal, the way they had ruled systematically into the hems. At a glance, a black knit was decorated with several zip-up pockets, which used to exclude their ivory cotton lining from the inside, giving the impression that the apparel was coming out of itself, or was taken out with a stuffing with a teddy bear. Another gray dress sprouted a drawer’s socks, turning it into a pile of washing neglected laundry. The fair oil sweaters had additional long sleeves that fell on the side or had bubbling rums across the torso, while woven among others. A type of knitted mitosis contained wool sprouts, sleeves and neck holes. In a way it was exceptionally intestine, shrunk and irregular knots gently remind the famous 1997 Com’s Garcons Collection (although the brand of Pillings Ri Kavakubo is not part of the stable, you imagine that it will be an excellent fit).
Murakami listed the help of contemporary dancer Yamada as a movement advisor, and the model held her skirt, her hands were delicately placed on her thighs or, at a glance, holding it together. Ghostly music filled the room as the model’s slow legs echoed on the wooden runway. The result was a skillful collection that showed both of Murakami’s simple knitted skills and their habit of laying their clothes with emotional depth. There is a designer here who can translate tenderness to clothes.
In The Last Look, the sweater was similar to a palace, but the Pillings team could not do it enough to work and it looked like a half-hearted house. Murakami saw the attraction in it anyway. “I liked deformation. I think the attitude of going towards something (but not always reaching it) is very important when making things, ”he said. Pillings in the universe, Mispen is beautiful, and here is the brand’s dose magic. Murakami said, “I think there is a lot of value in naturalness, such lines that you cannot pull with your head or with a ruler, so I included it in my compositions.” “Instead of following the shape of the body, it is like the shape of the heart.”
