September 21, 2017 |
“A female manga spirit split in two,” said the press release, which, after admittedly initially misreading as “mango” (long day), I realised that this was actually about those Japanese comics that people get totally obsessed with, the collection an ode to those power ladies who reside within their pages. Centre here was the obi (as in the Japanese waist-fastening) here looking a bit like a karate belt to give shape to mini-dresses and skirts that nipped the waist.
But this was about contrast – those more controlled shapes giving way to prettier, hyper-feminine lace gowns that revealed the girl’s bodies beneath. It was all whipped together with Byblos’ knack for colour and print – here, zingy lime greens were calmed with white and black, prints were magic-eye geometrics or echoed the stroke of a lipstick.
Photographs by Jason Lloyd Evans
