The cold weather has been a major motivator for designers around the world this fall season. Writing from Tokyo, Daisuke Obana reports that the mercury has dropped unusually low in Japan, but it was an earlier trip to Greenland, Finland and Iceland that heralded this season’s N.Hoolywood Compile offering. Those adventures in the north, the designer said, “provided a very calm, almost soft kind of inspiration,” which in the collection’s video and lookbook saw the models showering in snow, in a faux fur collar on a hooded jacket, and in some very cool cropped sweaters paired with
Winters get cold here fast. It was not meant for slopes, but a collection of streets. Thus, this was what the designer saw on his travels. “I was initially looking for a strong sense of history and local presence, yet both Greenland and Iceland revealed themselves to be unexpectedly urban and contemporary,” Obana said.
Denim is a modern wardrobe staple and this season the brand’s jeans, which stand out for the intensity of the color and the strength of the material, were the hero pieces. Corduroy is everywhere this fall, but in this collection (look 16) it was based on a horizontal diagonal and, the designer said, “subtly nods to Eddie Bauer’s historic ‘all-purpose’ bottom blouson.” Obana’s historical exploration of cold-weather dressing created a charming, whimsically puffy silhouette. Bumble, the abominable snow monster of the North, would approve.
