DESTROY AND REBUILD: ATSUSHI NAKASHIMA FALL - WINTER 2017

Experiment. This is the verb that accompanies Atsushi Nakashima collection for next winter, the eponymous brand of the Japanese designer who marched in February during Milan fashion week.

“What makes an artist, the artist is not experiencing problems in themselves as such, but to solve them artistically”. So he wrote the philosopher Adriano Tilgher in Contemporary theater studies (1924). And this approach, overall, certainly, but exciting from a creative point of view as if it were almost a provocation, it is the same that led the designer, former assistant to Jean Paul Gaultier, to create conceptual and experimental outfits, as well as portable.

And if to prove is the creative aspect, the stylistic one, results in demolition and construction of a dress that, in the next one, it transforms into something else out of sight. A seemingly complex process. It can be useful, for example, think of a pots that once fallen and broken into pieces: when you assemble the pieces again, the same object, is no longer as it looked in the beginning.

A reflection on the human being. This is what emerges at the end, once you understand the heart of the collection. What we are now reading these words, we will not be the most when we come to the end of the sentence. We change constantly. The intent of Nakashima expresses our fragility in apparently strong suits. In fact, they pose like a shield, to protect all our frailties. From this discussion, we could also read a criticism of the fashion world aesthetic excesses, in which you are only if you dress smuttily, but basically, de gustibus …

Details are essential to understanding the work of Atsushi Nakashima. In particular shoes, are made with 3D printer and always designed with a three-dimensional technology called FDM method, or fused deposition modeling. Even for fake fur was found a solution to the hair not to be ruined, thanks to a fiber called kanecaron. Promising.

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