PFW: Junko Shimada FW18

[x_section style=”margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 45px 0px 45px 0px; “][x_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” bg_color=”” style=”margin: 0px auto 0px auto; padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; “][x_column bg_color=”” type=”1/4″ style=”padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 1px; “][x_text class=”center-text “]by Danny de la Cruz[/x_text][/x_column][x_column bg_color=”” type=”3/4″ style=”padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; “][x_text]For the Fall/Winter 2018 season, designer Junko Shimada took her inspiration from the African vision of winter. As an ambassador for the Maasaï and Ndebele tribes, you won’t find the stereotypical khaki safari looks in this collection, but instead, a team of cricket players who paraded down the runway in fluorescent sandals, mixing vivid tartans with multicolored flower stitches. The looks are nonchalant chic — layering a smooth velvet hoodie with a colonial jacquard frock coat over lamé pants embroidered with 18th century animal scenes.

The collection, which defies classification, also encompassed models wrapped in tartan or spotted fur blanket, crowned with a bubble gum colored leather hat with a leopard-patterned lining. In the end, I loved this interpretation of a an African winter — bold, bright and unapologetic.

Junko Shimada Fall/Winter 2018 Collection

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