About KENZO FW 2004

Kenzo by Antonio Marras Fall 2004: More Than A Trip Around The World In 80 Days

PARIS, Mar 8, 2004/ FW, Timeless fascination and coloured sensations as Antonio Marras debuts in Paris for Kenzo after taking over the position of Artistic Director for the women line last September 2003.

The Sardinian (Italian) Marras is both passionate and an intellectual when it comes to fashion bringing with him new personality and awareness to make him the perfect choice for Kenzo multi cultured modernity.

Backstage after a show beautifully executed and of intense emotions, delightful Marras revealed that he had reserved a feel of melancholy and the overwhelming for his own line Antonio Marras shown in Milan last week, but for Kenzo he had delved into childhood playfulness with more colour for a label that is international and has no age, for women of all walks of life embracing multi culturalism, saying that this is typically Kenzo reworked, and this is simply what came out of it.

He always been fascinated by populations that are always on the move, by streams of constantly migrating gypsies, armies of nomads on horseback from distant lands without borders who roamed free and unfettered from Hungary to Manchuria.?

A collection that will see women embracing volume and new life skills, multi faceted clothes for multi talented women.

Wide trousers with turned up hemlines in pinstripes to tweed, Marras signature asymmetry on the upper body as he turns draping into an art with blanket like capes and little jackets. Silver jewellery reminiscent of the Peruvian mountain people and Gypsy princesses adorn the heads of these well-dressed and nonchalant travellers.

Sartorial detail and reworked wool in knitwear for a collection that definitely does have a season, Marras works his world into the universal worldliness of Kenzo. Patchwork and fabric mixing, appliqu?floral as giant roses on white coats, tweed and tartan, kimono sleeves and waists and Native American squaw naivety.

This collection is more than a trip around the world in 80 days; it is beautiful fashion that comes as a result of pure respect and admiration from apprentice to maestro.

The poetic finale of Sayoko, the historic Japanese Kenzo model dressed in a multi coloured tunic, criss crossing the wooden catwalk in a romantic daze summed up a first collection that will be one of many with what looks like Kenzo having finally found his true prot?