Junya Watanabe Mixes Business With Pleasure for SS23
Women’s returns to the Paris runway — last seen in 2020.
Junya Watanabe women’s returns to the Paris runway for Spring/Summer 2023 RTW — last seen in 2020. This show was a showing of duality in business and pleasure. With bits of the ’70s and ’80s tied in, it was all glam rock-meets-office with colorful and eccentric coiffure contrasting billowy and draped on formal wear in muted tones.
There was also a bit of added punk flair as makeup and metal accessories joined in with high boots, tartan fabric, and ripped jeans. A break in the showing was punctuated when the collection went from neutral tans, grays, and blacks to a heavy motocross-inspired range of deconstructed tops. Panels in typical racewear have been rearranged and altered then joined back together to make varying patterns only to be broken up by sections of blue, red, and neon green.
While the shade black dominated the runway of remixed formal attire, key elements like fishnet layering, quilted panels, geometric shapes, and pleating, all asked the audience to look deeper to find Watanabe’s signature playful and rebellious craft.
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