Guo Pei A/W 2018 Couture Collection： Architecture

“Time and Space” have always been the two grand themes that artists are devoted to expressing. Over the long course of history, architecture has been witness to human civilization, traversing time and transforming space. It is through architecture that mankind has relentlessly applied technologies to surpass themselves, expressing their thoughts and imagination about space, thus attaining miraculous glories. Guo Pei has found much enlightenment and creative inspiration from architecture. To her, imagination about space is one of the most enjoyable part of her design process. “Garments are walking works of architecture, and clothing is the first arena of space for mankind,” says Guo Pei. It is exactly because of her reflections on architecture and comprehension of space that Guo Pei made “architecture” the theme for her new season collection. Guo Pei’s FW 2018/19 Couture collection expresses architecture’s beauty of strength, beauty of structure, beauty of contour and beauty of rationality and equilibrium displayed through human silhouette. She attempts taking the aesthetics of architectural space and realizing them in the outlines and details of her designs, from which comes her concept that “Garments are walking works of architecture,” initiating a dialogue between the human body and spatial dimension.