Sudden downpours in Tokyo's Shibuya create painterly visions of the bustling city, the colors of its eye-catching billboards seemingly melting, taxis glowing as they speed through the cityscape.
Onitsuka Tiger creative director Andrea Pompilio sought to distill that essence into this beautiful fall collection, opened by a spirit-lifting dance performance by the Avantgardey dance troupe, complete with oversized wool coats shaped like clocks. sand, covered as if they were soaked in water and ruffles cut on the bias. or handkerchief dresses with mud-colored sequins that evoke puddles.
The office skirt suit in a pinstriped technical fabric that opened the show resonated deeply with the current indoor-outdoor conversation happening in fashion, as did the running sets layered under coats, polar fleeces into double cashmere transforming in outerwear in its own right and sneakers. converted into rockabilly creepers ready for sports and hiking and derby styles.
The demure palette of mud, rusty brown and gunmetal gray was only spiced up by various evolutions of Onitsuka Tiger's signature yellow, such as lime knit vests paired with chartreuse work pants and duffle coats.
Pompilio's ambition seems to be based on providing a new fashion model for the Japanese brand, uniting its sportswear roots towards what the designer does best: combining unconventional fabrics and silhouettes in a youthful, but bourgeois vision.
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