He is a very young designer invited to the big shows during the haute couture week which was held in Paris from 22 to 25 January 2024. Among the giants Chanel and Dior and the most artistic Margiela and Schiaparelli, Robert Wun proved once again that he deserves his place through a truly cinematic Spring-Summer 2024 collection.
Who is Robert Wun, the great Hong Kong film stylist
Struck by the images of Alexander McQueen’s spring-summer 1999 collection (the one in which two robotic arms sprayed paint on the white dress of the top model Shalom Harlow) encountered in a magazine, this is how the Hongkonger born in 1991 fell in love with fashion, reports The world. Robert Wun moved to London at the age of 16 and studied women’s design at the Royal College of Art in London, where he graduated in 2012. Inspired by films such as Matrix or those of Studio Ghibli, created its own house two years later.
In January 2023 he was invited for the first time to present a collection as part of the haute couture fashion week in Paris. Named ” Fear », is full of sartorial accidents sublimated by his textile know-how. To represent the idea of a burnt, ash-filled black coat, he dresses his model in a quilted black silk taffeta coat, embroidered with 500 3D-printed feathers and 4,000 real rooster feathers.
For a look that would catch the rain, she created a jacquard coat of embossed silk blend and taffeta, hand-encrusted with over 30,000 Swarovski crystals, depicting sparkling droplets. His burnt bride wears a double-sided satin dress whose burns are actually plays of prints, dyes and folds, while the edges are actually burnt. The wine-stained dress consists of a silk satin set marked with Robert Wun’s signature peplum corset and colored with a mixture of dyes, beetroot juice and red wine, all accompanied by a wine-stained hat.’ where blood red Swarovski crystals drip like dripping droplets.
Other looks are more directly inspired by the film, such as the sublimation (into an A-line coat, pleated collar and skirt with train, accessorised with an umbrella hat) of child character Georgie Denbrough’s little yellow raincoat in the film It. Or Martha Wayne’s pearl necklace suddenly breaking when someone tries to steal it from her in the movie Batman which becomes a corset tank top from which whales embroidered with Swarovski pearls emerge from the collar.
Robert Wun spring-summer 2024 haute couture show
For his second haute couture show presented in Paris on January 25, 2024, this time entitled “ For love “, Robert Wun continues to turn his love of cinema into high fashion. Her wedding dresses are stained even more red, not surprisingly this time by red wine, but rather by blood, to question the cult of virginity in our societies and our conceptions of purity.
Among the 24 songs very inspired by horror, animation and science fiction films, some are more spectacular than others. Like a silk chiffon dress painted with flames that was inspired by a documentary about a volcanologist who had the unfortunate tendency of always getting too close to the mouths of volcanoes until they caught fire. Or above all a coat embroidered with several fragments of broken mirrors inspired by a scene from Matrix where the character Trinity jumps from the window of a building. In short, Robert Wun continues to make his high fashion cinema mastery.
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