Welcome to the world “Wabi Sabi”, a design concept first brought about by the late designer Giuliano Fujiwara and ensured today by his successor, Masataka Matsumura. Converged on elements which are considered high context, Wabi Sabi, a distant derivative of Zen, characterized beauty through simplicity and beyond the mere obvious. Of course, these ideals are no longer unique in the fashion world today. But consider the reaction when Fujiwara first presented the concept in 1986 Milan Fashion Week, at the height of padded shoulder and the ostentatious power suit.

Once again, as with its Spring/Summer 2011 Collection, Matsumura looked toward proportions and symmetry as inspirations. Cuts and silhouettes were made in the mostly black design to create an illusion, a play, again, on proportions that gave the appearance of a continuous rectangular form, with no break at the middle. Being that this was Giuliano Fujiwara, Matsumura was mindful to the material and craft, all accordingly to the classical Italian tailoring process. But who said formalism can not be modern at the same time?