The winners of the 31st edition of the International Festival of Fashion and Photography at Hyères were just announced, revealing that the Grand Jury Prize Première Vision went to Japanese designer Wataru Tominaga.
A Central Saint Martins graduate, Tominaga switched studies, moving from Print to Fashion Design, producing last year a series of multi-coloured menswear designs for his graduate collection.
In his designs that charmed the Hyères Jury he mixed shapes, patterns and colours, coming up with oversized and distorted garments in mismatching shades such as plissé sleeveless jackets and shirts quite often decorated with white, blue, red, yellow and green flocked stripes.
Fashion-wise not all the pieces in the collection actually looked too convincing, especially when you analysed their unconventional volumes, but Tominaga seems to have an eye for bright patterns and quite often proceeds with the modus operandi of a painter or a graphic artist's rather than a designer's.
Layering was one of the main techniques employed in this collection, but the main inspiration came from a mix of images from the '60s, '70s and '80s showing multi-coloured skiwear, garments in fluorescent colours and patterned knits.
The most interesting thing about the collection was indeed the fact that the designer created his textiles using elastic tapes to gather and manipulate his fabrics, reuniting a machine-made aspect (printed patterns) with a handmade techique (the surface texture).
For what regards the other fashion awards, the Chloé Prize and the Honourable Mention from the Jury went to Hanne Jurmu & Anton Vartiainen, while Amanda Svart won the Public Award City of Hyères; for the photography section, the Grand Jury Prize went to Vendula Knopovà, Anaïs Boileau won instead the Public Award City of Hyères.
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