This season’s Y-3 presentation unfolded in the Cavernous Hall of the Palais Brongnart; We were warned that it would take approximately 30 minutes. There was no traditional catwalk show, but an emotionally charged interpretative dance in several acts “that wanted to deepen the connection of the audience”, thanks to the Kianí del Valle (KDV) Performance Group.
The first act started with 10 dancers all the hosted in black, who twisted, gestures and twisted their faces. More joined the battle, eventually as the highlight in a group of about 40 who stormed, sliding and guilded over the room. Sometimes the dancers merged to become a single shoe mass of arms and legs, with others who break away from each other to falter, sprint and collapse on the floor. The center was a sand seed filled with black sand, caught in fists or kicked in the air while white clouds of smoke descended from above. There were a total of four deeds of dancers, dressed in the collection, plus a five-part capsule of Pinstriped Sportjerseys that were decorated with the names of Zinedine Zidane, Jude Bellingham, Garrett Wilson and Anthony Edwards (adidas athletes who each have an association with the number 5).
There is a precedent here that Y-3 builds on: Yohji Yamamoto worked with Pina Bausch in the 90s, and this collection may have been read as a re-up for the next generation, which means that the Adidas Union comes in which is now strong for more than 20 years. Many of the items in the collection are made of a new summer discose that looked just as light as a second skin on the waving arms and legs, while others were dipped, so that they seemed like they were coming out of shadows. The best of all was that the pinstriped pieces in the last appearance of an expert mix of the romantic traditional formality of one side of the Y-3 coin with the directly recognizable tri-striped sportiness of the other.
The performance, although exciting, was not the most effective way to present the finer details of the clothing. What all the jumping, falling and swinging certainly demonstrated was how brilliant they were for movement; It is rare that you see clothing as a fashion show tested to the limit. The performance of the design is more clearly in the lookbook images – these are consumption -made jackets, dresses, shirts and pants that can be worn to shiver on the couch, go to a rave or jump out of a helicopter. Of course they also look good.