BACKSTAGE AT THOM BROWNE MENSWEAR SPRING-SUMMER 2016 PARIS

By Crash redaction

You can always trust Thom Browne to put on a show. Yesterday at the Paris Event Center, the American designer set the bar even higher with a Japanese-inspired show that was very much like a true artistic performance. The set was transformed in an authentic Japanese pavilion surrounded by a wheat field where the models – their faces painted in white and their lips black – were posing « attached » onto bamboo structures and covered with beautifully embellished kimonos and hats. The show started with four men geishas opening the doors of the central « box ». As they evolved around the décor, they each went towards the bamboo « scarecrows » and, one after the other, freed them from their kimonos, unveiling sharp tailored suits embroidered with Japanese-inspired motifs. On the sound of singing birds, the show had this sense of serenity and it was difficult not to feel the emotion.

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Photo credits: Elise Toïdé for Crash