Yusuke Takahashi didn’t waste bandwidth today with a theme, beyond a vague statement about “contemporary velocity” in modern urban life. The focus was on the often excellent clothes, a medley of thoughtfully pragmatic technical pieces interspersed with some innovatively fabricated soft tailoring and garnished by a few handsome, unusual knits.
In a less experimental, but way more wearable, iteration of an idea explored by Anrealage last September, Takahashi insinuated a Miyake-developed heat-shrunk stretch tape into such garments as a synthetic blue jacket, scarlet track pants, and a billowing gray raincoat. The tape gently ruched the material around it, creating both decoration and shape, and looked cool.
With a few exceptions, this was a barely ornamented collection. A reversible Harrington in black bouclé offered a more arresting inversion in red chambray; the wide-striped garment-dyed pieces were reversible, too, although what lay under the stripes was hard to glimpse. Shoes included sleek knitted sneakers in primary colors and black. There was plenty here to merit a temporary slowdown of that contemporary velocity in favor of a considered browse.
