Formal with a twist, these oversized and flowing looks from the new TOGA AW25 collection shown at London Fashion Week popped in the all white setting.
Yesterday, TOGA walked the catwalk with black and Asian models, and a lack of formality.
Yasuko Furuta, the designer, has managed to take her inspiration, William Eggleston, and rework it into an ‘anti-formal’ style, with an untied bow tie and wide trousers paired with a white shirt with an added rectangular cut over the right arm. Furuta has been influenced by both Japanese and European aesthetics. Her vision is to create clothing that challenged conventional fashion norms, which she has demonstrated in this collection.
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The atmosphere of this catwalk is quite eerie with an all white room, which feels quite sterile, and creepy music with a man talking over the top of it. However, further along in the show the music gets more upbeat, but a woman is still talking over the top of it. Then to finish, the music turns more rocky. Sounds director Shuhei Abe and production North Six have come together to create a show that encapsulates Furata’s visions of anti-formal.
Furuta often incorporates theatrical elements into her collections and TOGA has gained a reputation for its unconventional silhouettes, which is proving evident here. With a huge asymmetrical collar, a fur skirt and a pin check pattern incorporated in the main bodice, one sleeve and part of the olive overcoat. These different silhouettes and patterns really demonstrate her work.
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One thing that has stayed formal is the colours: grey, navy, white, black, brown, with a few hints of pinks and greens. Yasuko hasn’t completely gone to the other end of the formal spectrum, she has still worked it in with the colours and the general ideas of what formal is.
The main thing that is anti-formal is the shoes. Every shoe had some sort of big embellishment on it, whether it was a big bow or fur poking out the end, but it was still always on a formal type of shoe.
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