UMA WANG 2024 FALL/WINTER WOMENSWEAR

Memorabilia
The quest for less as a stream of memories.
Reminiscences. Of shapes, lines, volumes. The frame of the body, softly impressed on pillows.
The apparent severity that comes from remembrance of something distant, in space or time. Details are erased: what remains is the outline.
Silhouettes fall straight and vertically, with a certain bulk. Forms are constructed around the body, precisely tailored, wrapped and knotted to create structure or encase movement.
Structure as posture. Posture as manner. Manner as structure. Structure as a barrier, too: a way to contain the transitory, to avoid memories from being dispersed, and allow them to occupy space.
Drapes are solidified, in an attempt to turn the ephemeral into the permanent, like noting down thoughts on paper.
Fabric with weight. Dry. With a washed hand. Shaggy.
Strictness that contains and liberates, memorably.
By Angelo Flaccavento