Kenzo

9 of Kenzo's 94 looks draw on a specific dress or craft tradition, as read from the photographs. The house is based in France.

• Manton de manila · Spain · European folk & regional dress3 looks

  France → Spain

  “Dense multicolour silk-style floral embroidery on crimson ground: large peonies/roses, scrolling tendrils, scattered blossoms, characteristic of mantón de Manila shawl embroidery, reworked as a full gathered skirt.”

• Kimono · Japan · East AsiaLook 3

  France → Japan

  “Collarless crossover front with a continuous band collar (eri-like) running to the hem, closed by side self-ties rather than buttons, reworked as a tailored blazer.”

• Matsu pine and kasumi mist motif · Japan · East AsiaLook 37

  France → Japan

  “Stylised clustered pine-tree canopies over pale banded cloud or mist shapes, recalling Japanese matsu and suyari-gasumi landscape textile motifs, printed on cotton workwear trousers and a top.”

• Noragi / samue workwear · Japan · East AsiaLook 45

  France → Japan

  “Collarless jacket with a contrast-piped neckband running continuously down the front edge into a crossover V wrap, boxy cropped body and wide straight sleeves, like a noragi.”

• Pine and kasumi mist landscape motif · Japan · East AsiaLook 41

  France → Japan

  “Stylised clustered pine-tree canopies set among soft horizontal cloud/mist bands on a pale ground, recalling Japanese painting and kimono landscape patterning; placed on a Western chore jacket and shorts.”

• Chinese embroidered slippers · China · East AsiaLook 42

  France → China

  “Red satin closed flat slippers with dense multicoloured floral satin-stitch embroidery, the typical form and decoration of traditional Chinese embroidered cloth shoes.”

• Chinese embroidered silk slippers · China · East AsiaLook 2

  France → China

  “Red low-cut flat slippers with an all-over embroidered floral pattern in pink and green, resembling traditional Chinese embroidered cloth or silk shoes.”