'You can subscribe to latest fashion shows here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8iY00pXa83-haMiAdFI1zA?sub_confirmation=1 You can watch all Spring Summer 2018 Fashion Shows here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nzlSc74zH0&list=PLmzYUldjdAiFcuU7sD7Utc5Vk5wiTtWHD In this video you will be watching Kenzo Spring Summer 2018 Fashion Show - Kenzo SS 2018 Runway Show Vogue writes Dinner and a show - wasn\'t it once a thing? At fashion week these days, it’s more like a show and a show - wham, bam, thank you, m\'am. No dinner for us. And so, for the second time this season Humberto Leon and Carol Lim treated us to a fashion show wrapped in a theatrical evening experience. Following their feature-length community theatre-style play at Opening Ceremony on the Sunday evening of New York Fashion Week, the bi-continental designers took out a stage in Montmartre for their second Kenzo Memento show in Paris, a kind of diffusion line that reissues and reinterprets old classics from the house archives. They’d flown in Kagura, a theatre troupe from Hiroshima, who put on what Leon called “a type of Kabuki”: instruments were played as a samurai battled between six and eight dragons, played by actors rolled up in large paper tubes. “Obviously Kenzo Takada is Japanese and we wanted to fuse this East-meets-West idea with the denim and the Japanese to tell the story,” he elaborated, touching on the theme of the collection. The play was very well-executed, and, according to Leon, also a parallel to current affairs. “We can really relate to this story in our times. There’s a beast and there’s a sacrifice that happens.” So the Kenzo designers were being political, then, like the season they went out for Bernie Sanders during the election? “I dunno,” Leon answered. “There’s a type of heroine that comes in and saves the village.” With that established, we could move on to the fashion goods. Leon and Lim zoned in on the denim that Kenzo Takada – now 78 and still based in Paris – excelled in during the Seventies. Thirty percent of what they showed was direct replicas, the rest reinterpretations. And as things go with archive stuff, you realise it’s gone down in history for a reason. Denim shirt dresses and jumpsuits carried Kenzo’s old wave motif, while a denim-on-denim section came with topstitching. There were denim kimonos and traditional Japanese hats (but in denim). The show took place in the middle of the play – call it an interlude to our theatrical fashion experience – and while the connection between the garments and the dragon slayer wasn’t clear, the arrival of the retro Kenzo prints seemed to aesthetically bridge what unfolded before our eyes. These were some of the Kenzo greats: the tiger, the tiger in the jungle, the jungle on its own, bamboo madness, and some pixelated cloud prints. “This is the right time to really celebrate what he created and what he did; this crazy time in the Seventies when this kind of fashion was not around. It’s exciting to really hark back and tell the story of his importance in Parisian fashion,” Leon said, possibly referencing that exuberant Seventies resistance that links a little bit to the current political landscape. The first Memento collection, presented last season, hit shop floors yesterday, he said, and the dresses had already sold out. Theatrics aside, there’s a real appetite for nostalgia and revival this season - a nail Leon and Lim hit on the head with last season’s launch of Memento. At Versace last week, Donatella reissued a number of her brother Gianni’s classic prints, and Dolce & Gabbana revisited their lingerie-as-evening greatest hits a few days later. Anniversary collections this month have included Jeremy Scott’s best-of extravaganza celebrating his twenty years in business, a milestone identical to the one marked by Angela Missoni at her show. Tom Ford referenced his own work for Gucci in the Nineties and early Noughties in his eponymous collection, at Diane Von Fürstenberg creative director Jonathan Saunders looked to his founder\'s wild years in the Seventies, and on Tuesday evening at Saint Laurent, Anthony Vaccarello paid tribute to Pierre Bergé, who died in August, turning the volume up on YSL glamour. By all accounts, the Kenzo designers are capturing the zeitgeist - and some revenue, too.'
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