InspirAsian
Singapore Fashion Week 2006
31 October 2006
Island Ballroom, Shangri-La Hotel
Singapore
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Tonight’s gala evening, titled InspirAsiam, showcased the collections of the crème de la crème of Asian fashion designers. This year the showchase of varied dimensions and creatively of top Asian designers include Eley Kishimoto from UK, Kim Chu Ung from Korean and Heng Nam Nam from Singapore.

Eley Kishimoto

Based in London, this label is founded in the early 90s by Wakako Kishimoto from Japan and Mark Eley from England. Known for their prints, the duo have come a long way from their textile design roots to collaborations with international labels such as Alexander McQueen, Jil Sander, Marc Jacobs, and Yves Saint Laurent. Besides clothes, they have expanded their vision to include crockery, furniture, wallpaper, luggage, sneakers, lingerie and sunglasses.

SS07 Collection
BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD

ELEY KISHIMOTO SS07 Collection resets our past journey to a fresh start. It is almost a cleansing exercise to see what is there stripping off the old build ups. Retrospective elements of our old collections are practiced only to embrace and consolidate our DNA with more matured yet still personal handling before the next new steps, not regression.

Clean, sharp, crisp with gentle volume, silhouettes that do not over expose body shapes, androgynous sexuality of dress up dolls.

Colours that don’t take a specialist hours to mix, straight from the tubes

Prints as a result of doodling with the technological aid of graph paper.

Cotton and more cotton.

Eley Kishimoto in a birthday suit.