A stylistic mini twist and our fashionistas are won over. This Japanese garment, perfect for the office, has a simple detail that is enough to boost a whole look. He now invests all the shops.
It has been a long time since the country of the rising sun shades us on the trend side. Admittedly, in the collective imagination – especially for purists -, Paris remains the historic capital of fashion, but Japan frequently gives us beautiful fashion lessons. Its exhibition style territories? Harajuku, Shibuya, and Tokyo more generally.
In addition to their national fashion scene, this influence also infused the so -called “western” fashion. There is no longer the number of designers who are inspired by culture, styles and Japanese clothes to enhance their creations of this little “I don’t know” unidentifiable. Impossible not to think of the famous tabis of Margiela – These funny shoes that dress the feet of fashionistas without the laymen knowing neither the origin nor the history.
In recent months, another typical Japanese garment also floods the trendy ready-to-wear labels. Bershka,, Muji,, Nike And Zara have already been appropriate. Perfect for enhancing office looks, enhanced chic outfits without doing too much, blurring the boundaries between the various rooms of the wardrobe; He reimagine a classic garment by giving it a more singular silhouette than usual. This clothing dating from the Middle Ages is none other than the Hakama pants.
You have to believe that the Japanese love folds, and not only in origami: they also invade their clothes. Indeed, the Hakama pants are distinguished from normal pants thanks to the multiple folds which redesign its lines. Halfway between the skirt and the pants, its ambiguous shape fluidifies and blurries the movement of the one that wears it.
In the Japanese tradition, he has three folds in front on the left, two in front of the right and two behind, but the inspired iterations offered in the West are distinguished from a few folds and keep only on each front side. The versions imagined by these accessible brands often wear a form Wide Legeven bar In terms of legs. The favorite of fashionistas? That signed Zara.
It is already out of stock at the Iberian label … But no problem, the versions swarm in the different claws: close to the Hakama Original pants at Mujiin the form of a pliers pants in Bershkacomfort and jogging at Nike… The stylistic possibilities are multiple.
The Hakama pants, of yesteryear as revisited, perfectly embodies the philosophy of which the Japanese have been in love since the dawn of time: Wabi-Sabi. This consists of the idea of finding the sublime in imperfection, irregularity, non-effort, time that spins and abyss, ages, bonles. A style that is already invading Gen Z dressings with Japandi inspiration. So, seduced?
