RAMI KADI MAISON DE COUTURE Couture Fall-Winter 2019

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RAMI KADI MAISON DE COUTURE Couture Fall-Winter 2019The Temple of Flora

The Rami Kadi couture collection for Fall Winter 2019-20 is entitled “The Temple of Flora” after the18thCentury print portfolio that served as its main inspiration.

The collection is a thorough exploration of the Flower in all incarnations possible.As such, it is anendeavor to emancipate it from its conventional associations with prettiness and delicacy, and to lookinto the possibilities of frivolity, mischief, and audacity thatlie at the heart of the Flower; hence theamalgamof botanical shapes that the collection features.

Some designs feature a crisp and bold depiction with sonorous textures, while others maintain a rarifiedand airy style, with the fabric light,translucent,andethereal.Ultimately, this is a flight ofinquisitioninto whether there is, beyond all forms, colors, and textures, anyfil conducteurthat runs–literally–and endows the Flower with its true Platonic essence.

The Temple of Florahighlights noveltechniques of handcrafting such as hand-painted plasticleaves,laser-cut techniques and3D-knitted iridescent sequinswithombréof feathers inspired from the depthof flowers’ petals.“If theact of self-contemplation has turned Narcissus into aflower, maybe theopposite was equally true;maybe the act of contemplating upon a flower can emancipate us from ourselves and release all of thepersonae that dwell inside them.”

This experiment culminates in certainsilhouetteswhere theformgets completely pixilated, leaving uswith a grid of color that nonetheless retains a flowery gasp–almost a scent.