Richard's Wear 15April15wed actual

This, unlike previous posts for the most part, is a recent design, done New Year's 2014-15 about four months ago.   I cannot, in all honesty, remember what I was thinking when I did it.   

Actually, all the kimonos and obis used are ones I dislike and if I am right, I was trying to do something more interesting than throwing them all away.  IF I COULD make something out of them, worth wearing, not necessarily grand or wonderful, then as long as it was a bit better than sheer trash, I could get value out of designing them.  

I ended up getting TEN of these today from Vietnam. First, my producer ladies did a PERFECT job of fit and finish---every slightest suggestion was perfectly interpreted and executed.  Amazing. 

 Second, since the materials were rather boring, the worst in my furugi collections, I spiffed up the other non-material design elements.  When I have great kimono and obi materials, no need for fancy smancy shapes.  But here, I felt the need for embellishment, a la the adolescent crap that Louis the 14th at Versailles mistook for beauty---glitz and more glitz, symmetry and more symmetry, a 12 year old's idea of beauty--really does make me vomit.   

So the jacket above is toward that vomit-genre of design pioneered by stupid genetically deficient kings of France a couple of hundreds years ago.   Notice the Star Trek Next Generation Lt. Warf shoulder extensions!   Nicely outre!!!!   Notice the stained glass curved section on the lower back---what in the world is THAT?   

This suit is particularly disturbed by the stupid kimono patterns here and there on it----rather unfortunately, junking up what might have been a clean design. FORTUNATELY the other 9 suits are without that crap.

The suit it VERY comfortable to wear and perfectly shaped, fitted, and sized.   I wore it to Omotesando today and it was so powerfully confusing that people did not know how to react.   I imagine that like the initial reaction to Picasso's Des'moiselles D'avignon (self flattering lie therefore).   

The vest in front is NOT a real vest.  The buttons do not fasten anything--they are there to distract from how ugly my face is.   The vest is joined in the center with a gold zipper--very convenient.   The vest-like things attach just inside the lapels on either side.  When it gets warm I just leave it all open, unzipped.  It is sleeveless because I assure you all that not one sleeve will be left on earth by 2030.   It will be too hot everywhere all the time.   The entire suit is all silk---and Japanese silk if by far the most lasting and lovely in Asia.   Too bad the people who make it are so stubborn and suicidally bent on old robes and Rome.   Got their heads in some self worship our lovely past spot and cannot see the trees.   Idiots.    Nice for me---I can buy unmatchable materials nowhere else available on earth and one by one no longer being made at all.   Tomorrow I will wear a better one of these TEN suits---and you will see the difference.