Akris Spring/Summer 2016 Fashion Show :: Paris Fashion Week

The Story

I have been admiring Sou Fujimoto’s work and his unique approach to architecture for quite some time.

We met through Iwan Baan, the photographer, earlier this year in Paris, where Sou Fujimoto is working on the new Paris-Saclay University.
In summer, we saw each other again in Tokyo after I spent time in Naoshima, where I discovered his delicate white pavilion in the harbor. It is a place to relax and a new architectural experience speaking to all senses. It looks like a diamond, beauti- ful during the day and wonderful at night and it inspired my 3D-printed rings.

There are architects whose vision is close to what fashion really is about – creating a relation between the body and the environment that helps human beings to live comfortably. Sou is an architect who understands that we have more senses than just the eye.

In Sou’s work, I recognize a desire to comprehend and create volume, space and room, to intertwine nature and construction, to work with transparency and opaque- ness that rings familiar to me.

He is a great integrator and he is able to express a complex virtuosity with utmost simplicity and ease.

The Forest of Music is a Music Hall project in Budapest covered by a round molding roof with openings for trees to grow.

I was most inspired by his sketching always in red ink, his personal way of dressing – relaxed – and his glasses, the inspiration for the sunglasses in the show.

The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion of 2013, which was my first encounter with Sou Fujimoto’s architecture, the different blues of the Miami Design District facade, the Taiwan Towers project and the woods of his entry for the Sumida Museum for Hokusai or the complex simplicity of the Setonomori Houses and most prominently the House N – tonight, they all are in the Grand Palais.

~ Albert Kriemler
Paris, October 4, 2015

Akris Fashion Show

**Akris owns the rights to these photographs

1. Forest of Music

Isabella Emmack (Viva) Black knit pullover, techno mesh A-line skirt

Hedvig Palm (Next) Pure white techno mesh bermuda suit, mesh tank

Pauline Hoarau (Elite) Long black jersey crêpe rounded dress

Models: Antonina Petkovic (Elite), Diana Moldovan (IMG), Hedvig Palm (Next), Isabella Emmack (Viva), Alex Yuryeva (Silent), Dasha Denisenko (Supreme), Pauline Hoarau (Elite)

2. House N

Susanne Knipper (Elite) Cotton window voile A-line dress

Eva Berzina (Women) Cotton window print suit, voile shirt

Mijo Mihaljcic (IMG) Pure white cotton shirt and gabardine bermuda Anouk City in mirrored leather

Models: Susanne Knipper (Elite), Eva Berzina (Women), Mijo Mihaljcic (IMG)

3. Taiwan Tower

Vivienne Rohner (Elite) Black techno mesh top, long plissé shorts skirt

Kwak Jiyoung (Elite) Pure white cotton knit top, pullover and skirt Medium shoulder Ai in mirrored leather

Vittoria Ceretti (Elite) Aquamarine cotton knit pullover, techno mesh A-line skirt

Lauren de Graaf (Elite) Pure white cotton knit top, pullover and wide leg gabardine cropped pants Large shoulder Ai in lasercut leather

Cindy Bruna (Metropolitan) Aquamarine cotton knit dress Medium shoulder Ai in lasercut leather

Chiharu Okunugi (Women) Black techno mesh A-line dress Medium shoulder Ai in techno mesh

Models: Kwak Jiyoung (Elite), Vittoria Ceretti (Elite), Lauren de Graaf (Elite), Cindy Bruna (Metropolitan), Chiharu Okunugi (Women), Vivienne Rohner (Elite)