Masayuki Ino staged Doublet’s spring show in the courtyard of a high school in Paris, depicting a hot summer day with families picnicking or strolling, the youth busy themselves with barbecue or playing badminton. As the holiday bell rang, they froze, snow began to fall, and strange characters made their entrance.
Inspired by the Invisible Man trope, as always, there were a lot of terrifying details and tongue-in-cheek pieces. Unlike the uninteresting versions derived from H.G. Wells’ novel, these unseen guests simply wanted to go about their business, ending up in all kinds of predicaments because their invisibility worked.
Eno makes sure to have a double take for even the most effortless details, like distressed denim. It turned out to be a print just under the skin under the hole. On another denim set with heavy rumpling, or similarly wearing extra jogger pants (think Kevin Bacon in the 2000 sci-fi flick “Hollow Man”).
Wearing mundane outfits such as trenchcoats and slacks or fire-engine red tracksuits walked extra-long silhouettes, but headless. Another couple was strolling in cropped gray trenchcoats, hoping to get away with just that. It could have worked if not for the extra-long fringe that showed off her underpants-wearing lower body.
But with many extras, the occasional barbecue reference and the heavy falling snow that is found everywhere (even behind glasses and masks), it was a little harder than usual to get where Ino’s legend was going. .
Originally published at Pen 18
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