Thakoon's inspiration for autumn/winter 2011:"There’s opulence in the air"
Thailand-born, American-based designer Thakoon was this season inspired by the Dangerous Liaisons exhibition, held in 2004 at New York's Metropolitan Museum. The exhibition focused on dress and its aesthetic interplay with art, furniture, and the broader decorative arts between 1750 and 1789 and explored the dressed body’s spatial negotiation of the 18th-century interior as a choreography of seduction and erotic play. As part of his research process, Thakoon took images and created warped collages of the luxurious environments.
Text by Hollie Lacayo
