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Robert Wun is an amazing fashion Designer from Hong Kong, China who has been in the fashion industry since 2014 after graduating from London College of Fashion.
His fall/winter collection is one of his best works where he represents the seasons, the body, and the soul with his pieces. The background of this show is pitch black while a projector displays images of nature behind the models. Robert Wun said he created these pieces to celebrate how “nothing lasts forever and that’s the beauty of it”. |
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The first few pieces represent the winter with a female model walking down the runway with a black lace veil and dress adorned with gorgeous white jewelry while fake snow surrounds them. Robert Wun claimed that these pieces represent the first falling of snow.
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The next few models’ outfits are covered in butterflies while a tree is projected onto the background. These outfits represent the transition from winter to spring. The last model walks out with a head piece that is covered in autumn leaves representing fall. Her outfit is composed of different orange hues and is the only look to represent the season.
A model walks out with a similar outfit to the first winter look. She walks with an umbrella covered in cherry blossoms. The second model appears with a hat tilted to its side on her head, a backless green dress, and a flower on her shoulder. She represents flowers just before they bloom.
Following behind the green model is the flower she has just “bloomed into”. A model walks outside with a black corset, white nails, and a long white draped skirt. A transparent veil embroidered with white crystals covers her face. She is a white rose standing in the darkness.
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The next two models who walk out represent different flowers as well. A model in a gorgeous pink dress is revealed whose softness is juxtaposed with burning flowers in the background. This is a theme shown in multiple outfits in the spring portion of this fashion show. The burning of flowers represents how impermanent they are, just like life. In Chinese philosophy, the idea of impermanence is important. This is an idea praised by monks and is also represented through the decaying of flowers.
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The next few outfits have holes that are seemingly burnt into them. These outfits carry the theme of impermanence. These looks are being burnt away and lost to time. However, despite how dark this matter is, the clothes are beautiful and colorful. The beauty still persists in these items even after they’ve passed or are no longer useful.
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A model walks out with a white hat, layered suits, multiple button-ups, and yellow gradient tights. These are oversized and surround her like a cocoon in the middle of a metamorphosis. The impermanence of things not only represents their ending but also another beginning. I think this piece can also represent experimenting with one’s style or even thrifting. When you experiment with the impermanence of time, it allows you to move on and improve yourself. When you thrift something you give the past something new, something present, even if it is different from its original purpose.
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The second look represents the Japanese practice of Kintsugi, where one repairs broken objects with liquid gold. It represents not only how time can change an object, but also how it can improve it. These beautiful gold accents make the blue pop and further represents the beauty in fleeting time.
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The last four looks represent the four different parts of the body: the flesh, the blood, the bone, and the soul. Wun wanted to represent the fleetingness of not only the seasons and objects but humanity as well. Despite the impermanence of humanity’s life and ideas being seemingly morbid, they’re represented as beautifully.
The second outfit represents blood. This piece is in gorgeous crimson red and it is woven to represent the muscular system. The back of the dress is long and drags on which may represent the flowing of blood in the body. Despite being long it ends which represents how it stops flowing when one reaches their death.
The last piece is gorgeous with the model wearing a black veil embroidered with purple, red, and teal gemstones. She wears sheer tight sleeves with the galaxies sewn into them. The dress is also purple and embroidered with gemstones of various colors. The model walks with her hands outstretched representing her divinity and immortality. Despite the rest of the fashion show having pieces that represent impermanence the last piece represents the soul which is immortal and everchanging. This soul can represent humanity’s ideas; despite ideas existing for years, they can always be changed into something new. This was my favorite piece and the most popular out of the whole fashion show.
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The first piece is the flesh. A model walks down the runway with a face modeled on clay and placed on her head. Flesh-clovered pleated fabric covers the model's body including their face. The pleats overlay upon themselves like skin covering skin. The Japanese tabis–traditional Japanese socks with thonged footwear– are also flesh covered furthering the point of time-changing ideas over time.
The next piece represents the bone, the protective layer of the body under all the flesh and the blood. This was my least favorite piece in the fashion show. I believe there would’ve been a more effective way of representing the skeletal system without making it look like a costume. However, I really liked the pieces on the chest of the model that represent the rib cage.
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Robert Wun’s pieces represent the beauty of impermanence: an ideology that is important in Chinese Buddhism. Not only is it beautiful but it should be embraced as being scared of impermanence is being scared of the inevitable. I hope this review gets more people interested in Haute Couture and how these pieces are not only beautiful but also rich in meaning.
