Inspiration – h.NAOTO
h.NAOTO’s clothing designs are always filled with flamboyant overboard clothes that are filled with a lot of ideas on one outfit. These outfit are filled with so much detail that for most of them, it is difficult to capture the main idea that the designer had wanted to capture. However this contributes to how interesting his elaborate designs are and allows the viewer’s mind to run wild on their own.
For the most of the designs, the base colour would be black or white, with one other colour in different shades to bring the whole outfit together. Although the designs may seem to be so messy to the extent that they can all be taken apart to create a different design all together, it is undoubted that the design that the designer decided to use is probably the most mysterious and brings across the mysteriousness of the genre of clothing itself.
I also like how the designs on the runway start off with only white/cream colours and black before slowly adding more colours resulting in the end addition of bright neon like colours of yellow and hot pink. The designs are also somehow brought together to be seen as a collection through many different ways. For starters, this being the Spring/Summer collection, some of his designs uses ight flowy materials so act similar to that of the bride’s veil, flowing behind her. It can also resemble the spring wind blowing softly behind. The way the model’s walk also play a part in the show.
The models start off walking slowly, like as if to create a sense of suspense, the ending part of the video than shows lively models skipping and waving to the crowd [these are actually not professional models but japanese music idols who were not trained in runway walk] to give the whole thing a more lively feel. This is in conjunction with the addition of brighter colours into the collection.
The skippy bunch are also brought together by a toy similar to that of a mascot, the cat. The beginning designs are shown with a figure of a cat printed on the back and the remaining few all carry the stuffed mascot while walking down the runway.
I like how the designer uses this mascot to bring the whole collection together and I enjoy the various changes in the whole collection. Each design is special, all of them can be seen as individuals or as a group.
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