“The direction of high fashion and streetwear is very different,” said Fumito Ganryu via translator. “High fashion can appear more simple but more elegant, while streetwear has a wild energy that comes from the young.” In this collection the Comme des Garçons alum worked to show that these differences of direction need not be oppositional—and should in fact be complementary. This is why the duffle coat modeled in the background by the designer’s colleague Yusuke was cut to appear highly classical (even when haphazardly buttoned) yet was produced in a bonded technical fabric. Against it Yusuke wore an enormous example of the collection’s faux-fur hats that evoked Willie Dynamite, Buffalo, and Jamiroquai to this old-timer and which looked extrovert-perfect, whatever the reference.
Workwear jackets were combined with demonstratively colored detachable faux-fur collars. Oversized wool tailored jackets and kimono-sleeve knits signified classicism elsewhere to complement shirting with integrated fleece-front gilets and workwear aprons. Down zip-ups and lapeled jackets were presented in a modularly intended range of the three primary colors plus black and white, to support Ganryu’s thesis that through the unprejudiced combination of difference you create infinite possibilities. Almost every garment featured a QR-code patch, which once scanned would take the wearer, Ganryu promised, deeper into that happy utopia.
