Short-lived beauty, youth, love. It sounds like Lana del Rey’s song, but it’s actually Frank Sinatra. Jin Kay, who has half the commission with Dylan Cao, explained that behind the designers this season, the “World We Know” of Sinatra in 1967. This makes sense: in the present context, most of the committees examined the styles of the 60s and 80s. It makes equally true that these two millennial designers feel a way in our moments now—they think their young people are short-lived and the world they grew up in is not the ones they know.
If this is a very tough requirement captured in the fashion collection, then Cao and Kay seem to be able to handle the challenge. Hanging in the Paris showroom is a colorful dress with “egg wine”. A strange little mixture, it’s in her twenties from Laura Ingalls and Lower East Side, about 2025, its prairie ruffles are stacked between two sets of extra sleeves and its mini long hem wear.
Over the past decade, this design brand abstracts and subverts the various pieces that would otherwise fall behind our closets. However, Cao and Kay even the most familiar silhouettes make their clothes stand out. However, the series caused some anxiety compared to their previous outings. It’s less romantic than the lineup in the past and a little tough.
Dry cleaning labels appear here and there in the finishing. It’s about the desire to “preserve” that is the idea of this future clothing and life, Kai said. Many details can be seen in the showroom, which is hard to tell in this lookbook: CAO and Kay capture the frozen movement by deleting the draped details or imitating time by reducing the shirt and pants or reducing the white fabric of two tones, or mimicking the passage of time. “Over and over, I keep traversing the world we know,” Sinatra sang in that song. “That’s unimaginable, that incredible world we know.”
