Kolor RTW Spring 2024

We may all use a bit ice proper about now.

As if anticipating our wishes, Kolor’s Junichi Abe introduced a snow-themed present below the blazing summer season solar to make us dream of cooler climes.

The designer was impressed by his latest return to the game he cherished as a toddler, hitting the slopes in his native Japan. The joy of swooshing downhill reinvigorated him, and gave him new inspiration for shapes for spring-summer. It resulted in a sportier, looser silhouette than latest seasons.

The present began with earthy seems to be that learn as nearly tribal, together with a billowing white gown that added an air of hippie cool.

He additionally desires us to mirror on our relationship to nature. The solitary second of being on the mountain was “scary, but it surely was very nice to look at myself,” he mentioned. That concept of self-transformation translated to the clothes, which he wished to upend.

He pulled in ski sweater motifs and reworked them along with his shade blocking fashion. Chevron shapes added sharper angles to parkas, and he reworked shorts with layers.

Snowflakes got here on gentle, boxy sweaters, and ski fits neatly added quick puffy sleeves for a playful jolt. Abe additionally tried a brand new form with a cape sleeve that pulled from a puffer coat, and he stored his humorousness within the assortment — different open sleeves had dangling mittens on the prepared.

Abe mentioned he favored the distinction of doing a ski assortment in summer season, the primary nod to the season got here in skinny materials, comparable to nylon jumpsuits that had been practically clear and lightweight as snow.