LFW: DAVID KOMA A/W 2011 REVIEW

The Italian Futuristi seem to be a distant memory for David Koma: the Georgian-born designer moved indeed from a different inspiration this time, Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s polka dots. Playing on repetition, Koma’s dots appeared in prints, as laser cut holes perforating his capes and skirts and as appliquéd patent leather discs and decorative balls of fox fur in black, green or yellow. The collection started on a black and nude palette but then progressed nbso towards colours with sparkles of orange, fuchsia, green and yellow appearing through the holes.

The second part of the collection also included designs featuring prints by Russian photographer Oleg Dou. His images, taken from Dou’s “Naked Faces” project, actually had the same hallucinatory quality of Kusama’s fields of polka dots and “infinity nets”, her paintings covered in a sequence of nets and dots, and added a surreal element to the collection.

By Anna Batista

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