Yuka Kimura called this Mukcyen collection Low Energy. The designer, who is on her sixth season of the brand, had been watching Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1964 film Red Desert, which explores the psychological toll of industrialization, and was thinking about how it relates to our present reality.
Nowadays the grind of factories and machinery has been replaced by a ceaseless hum of digital noise. “A messy, overwhelming variety of inputs,” as Kimura put it. “People are becoming increasingly sensitive to this kind of noise, or simply exhausted by it,” she said. “I created this collection to express that feeling.” Hence the hoods that sprang from the shoulders of tailored jackets, or draped Alaïa-style from bodycon tops. “Good for when you don’t want to talk to anyone.”
Kimura, a striking 28-year-old with white hair, white eyebrows, g as poopoo and long nails painted ash gray, pays close attention to how her silhouettes and fabrics can best flatter the body. “I consider things like which areas women might want to hide or reveal, and those details are really the core of what I do,” she said. The designer calls the tight,
