Dance, geometry merge at Paris menswear week

PARIS — (AP) — Dance, theater and geometry merged in Thursday’s installment of Paris menswear week — as all eyes seemed towards Louis Vuitton’s fall-winter spectacle.

Listed below are some highlights for fall-winter 2023-24 collections:

ISSEY MIYAKE GOES COMPLEX, BRIGHT

A writhing dance troupe carried out on the runway towards a backdrop of optically striped lighting, which moved organically.

It was extra than simply spectacle and launched a geometrical theme this season — how easy shapes could be folded to create extra complicated ones — one thing that the Japanese home explored in a number of distinct sections usinb its signature techno-pleating strategies all through.

The Homme Plisse Issey Miyake assortment started with a wonderful, comfortable new coat silhouette — in flashes of eye-popping coloration — with ridge-like shoulder tucks and warped tubular sleeves. Strains within the groove of the pleating appeared like complexity, even when the silhouettes themselves appeared minimalist.

Elsewhere, the thought of simplicity spawning greater than the sum of its elements was developed with aptitude in a method known as the “edge coat.” The amorphous-pleated garment resembled a kind of darkish jellyfish, designed utilizing triangular formed material that created a chic three-dimensional form.

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