For Juun.J artistic director Jung Wook-jun, all of us have room to develop, even vogue itself.
That’s a sentiment he expressed backstage and that underpinned a spring assortment impressed by kids enjoying round with clothes mined from the wardrobe of an older sibling or mother or father.
“I discovered it fascinating to see how girls and boys make errors after they first costume,” he stated by a translator. Take layering an enormous sister’s occasion costume with a sporty jacket or attempting a father’s go well with and ties.
The happiest experiments had been these the place he outlined an X-shaped silhouette that was enterprise on the prime, occasion on the underside.
Sharply outlined shoulder traces performed proper into the dressier course the designer felt was an enormous upcoming pattern — an inkling that has been confirmed by Parisian runways to this point.
A key form of the season was Jung’s tackle balloon trousers, which provided an answer for a too-large garment on a smaller physique body. His “folded trouser-and-a-half” turned the surplus material, typically in a contrasting materials, into good-looking sculptural folds.
Notably eye-catching had been the variations minimize from fluid materials, be it summer-weight suiting, flippantly crinkled nylon or a striped cotton canvas paying homage to overalls.
A center part straying into too-expected pairings of formal and casual, elegant and sporty or utility and leisure felt off-kilter.
Returning to his earlier curvaceous concepts for a remaining part with a nautical vibe telegraphed the notion that rising can be about stumbling however getting straight again in your ft.