The first look from the Apu Jan SS15 show
Encountering a Roaming Sheep was the name given to the Apu Jan SS15 collection, and to say we were on the edge of our seats of anticipation of what was to come would be an understatement.
What followed was a series of wearable pieces, with beautiful prints, sexy split designs and knitted pieces that are intricately detailed.
For centuries cultures have mythologies and woven tales around the sheep – a constant presence in the history of humankind, elevated to religious and spiritual heights and rendered a symbol of man’s own vulnerability and weakness in literature.
Drawing on otherworldly realms of Karuki Murakami, Philip K Dick’s philosophical questions on humanity and the parallels between man and sheep in Aesop’s Fables, Apu Jan has based his collection around the humble animal.
The designer uses jacquard knits and digital prints in a spectrum of blue tones which represent the psychedelic, as well as the uncertainty of human nature.
This collection marks the designer’s fourth collaboration with award-winning print designer Ying Wu, whose deigns combine the abstract and the figurative to create an unsettling canvas, accentuating the sense of remoteness and mysticism.
Meandering woven lines of varying thickness form part of the design story, representing the spiritual and physical journeys people make.
Dresses, skirts and tops in lightweight silk-cotton knits draw diagonal lines across the body which simultaneously cover and reveal in a modern interpretation of the cheongsam.
Claire De Graft and team sponsored by The Body Shop created the beauty look for the showDJ QuestionMark and Taiwanese indie singer Olivia Yen accompany the show with music produced entirely from knitting and sewing machine audio recordings – the show was a beautiful experience and one we won’t forget anytime soon.
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